Fedade

About Fedade

Fedade is an express scanner that produces an assortment of output formats.

This WWW tree was produced by fedade from the POSC Epicentre v2.1 model.

Fedade is built with the NIST fedex express parser with extended data types derived from the POSC data access layer.

Currently, Fedade is also capable of:

Some early limitations have been eliminated. The program now tags an attribute with its named data type where appropriate and generates a link to the type definition. Also, if descriptive text is provided in Mobil "message" format, fedade will inject this into the generated HTML for entities, attributes and named types.

Limitations

Fedade currently does nothing with rules and could probably handle certain expressions like "one of" a little better.

There are currently no facilities for searching the descriptive text. I'll definitely be including this when I can get some more free time.

Fedade limits itself to fairly simple HTML sequences and produces output that can be viewed with most HTML browsers. Some significant readability improvements could be achieved with the use of HTML 3.0 tables. Unfortunately, Mosaic (one of the most popular browsers) is not capable of displaying tables containing links or graphics.

Acknowledgements

The Epicentre 2.1 schema is copyright © 1994, 1995, 1996 by Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation and has been made publically available by agreement with POSC.

POSC (R) and the POSC Logo (R) are registered trademarks of Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation.

Fedade was written by Andrew Fullford, under contract to Mobil Exploration and Producing.

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By Andrew Fullford, version 2.9, last changed 96/10/21