[UPDATE] standard-message-function-library.r

The XML-based Standard Message dialect page has been updated here... http://www.dangeroustechnology.com/ The Standard Message Function Library file has been renamed and can be viewed here... http://www.dangeroustechnology.com/standard-message-function-library.txt The routines and subroutines I outlined for the system have been updated with finished subroutines marked in red here... http://www.dangeroustechnology.com/#one2 Here is a quick overview of usage for the Standard Message Function Library in its current state: USAGE: Messages can be translated from the REBOL object! datatype to the XML- based Standard Message (and vice-versa) using a translator. To translate from object! to XML: translate-message/markup-data rebol-object To translate from XML to object!: translate-message/read-markup %filename Messages can be translated from cgi input, an e-mail message or a newsgroup message to the REBOL object! datatype using a translator. The data must first be retrieved using REBOL's built-in Internet protocols, which places the data into a cgi object! or e-mail object! To translate from cgi input to the standard message object!: decode-to-object/from-cgi cgi-object To translate from e-mail or newsgroup messages to the standard message object!: decode-to-object/from-email email-object XML files are named based on the time they are generated. To generate a file name based on time: time-in-digits now Messages are created using CGI on a web server. To decode CGI input from the web server: cgi-input: retrieve-user-data Write the XML-formatted standard message data with a file name determined by messageID and to a directory determined by messageType. write-xml-message xml-message-string Messages are requested using CGI on a web server. Read a directory of file names corresponding to a directory of XML-formatted standard messages with the directory determined by messageType. read-message-directory message-request-data Read a specific XML-formatted standard message with the directory determined by messageType and the file name determined by messageID. read-message message-request-data Read a directory of XML-formatted standard messages with the directory determined by messageType. read-directory-messages message-directory message-request-data Messages are displayed as text/html output to a browser. Markup a standard message using standardized cascading style sheets tags as the display markup. display-markup/css xml-message-string Markup a standard message using a set of HTML tags as defined in an external object! as the display markup. display-markup/html xml-message-string html-tags

The Standard Message Function Library took a great leap forward today, moving from version 0.1.2 to version 0.2.1. Besides a few bug fixes, the library now includes the 'create-message and 'get- messages-for-display functions (see usage for these functions below.) As always, I appreciate any and all input on this effort. -Ryan You can read about the Standard Message Function Library here: http://www.dangeroustechnology.com A new usage section for the library has been added here: http://www.dangeroustechnology.com/#one3 And the code for the library is here: http://www.dangeroustechnology.com/standard-message-function-library.txt Here is a synopsis of today's changes: 0.2.1 [9-Jan-2001 "Corrected target 'word in 'write-xml-message. Added 'create-message object! functions. Corrected 'display-markup to output string! datatype instead of block! datatype. Negated use of 'message-request-data target variable in 'read-directory-messages. Added 'get-messages-for-display object! functions." "Ryan"] And, finally, here are the ussage instructions for the newly created functions 'create-messsage and 'get-messages-for-display. These are higher-level functions, depending on other library functions for execution: CREATING (AND SAVING) MESSAGES Using decoded CGI data, writes XML standard message file to directory determined by messageType. create-message/from-cgi cgi-input Using an e-mail message in the form of a REBOL e-mail object!, writes XML standard message file to 'email' directory. create-message/from-email email-message RETRIEVING MESSAGES MARKED-UP FOR DISPLAY Using decoded CGI data, create a block! of messages marked up for display using standardized cascading style sheets tags as the display markup. get-messages-for-display/all-messages-in-directory/css-output cgi-input Using decoded CGI data, create a block! of messages marked up for display using a set of HTML tags as defined in an external object! as the display markup. get-messages-for-display/all-messages-in-directory/html-output cgi-input Using decoded CGI data, mark up a specific message for display using standardized cascading style sheets tags as the display markup. get-messages-for-display/specific-message/css-output cgi-input Using decoded CGI data, mark up a specific message for display using a set of HTML tags as defined in an external object! as the display markup. get-messages-for-display/specific-message/html-output cgi-input