Lemon8-XML Roadmap

Development Roadmap

Milestone 3 - 1.0 (Current - Q3 2008)

Framework

• Automated installer script (like OxS)
• Per-user accounts and self-signup with captcha (eg. reCaptcha ?)
• Refactor to add plugin classes: parse, lookup, import (Google Docs), export, metadata schema
• Convert incoming content into UTF-8

Section Editor

• Change section heading level
• Add/upload new figure

Personalization

• Allow upload of custom XSL/CSS for preview/export
• Set default metadata values (eg. copyright statement)

Unfiled Bugs

• Parser does not find a title in a .odt when it is in the document properties (Peter Sefton)
• Occasionally random "<name name-style="western">" appear when an article has many, many authors
• Extraneous "Aff1" with nothing attached to it - on first author.
• Does not properly output "et al" for citations with more than X authors (6?) (in HTML)

Proposed for Future Release

Document Parser

• UI to present user with content that is left unparsed
• Investigate alternative DOM-marking approach to retain ODT

Metadata Editor

• Enable multiple article ID
• Add primary author selector / role-aff association
• Add acknowledgements, reviewers, review dates, etc.
• Create markup for abstract sections in XHTML
• Enable collapsable sections (authors, affiliations, etc)

Section Editor

• Enable collapsable sections
• Add/paste/edit XHTML tables and sections (TinyMCE)

Citation Editor

• Citation types and elements mapped to OpenURL?
• Refactor UI using AJAX and JSON-type methods

HTML/PDF Preview

• Improve PDF XSL (as per OJS development)
• Tweak XHTML stylesheets for tables/figures

XML Export

• XML pre-validation & libxml notices
• NLM: metadata generation w/full aff linking
• NLM: Improve figure/abstract/list transformation
• NLM: Add figures/tables to xref detection
• NLM: Integrate feedback from Open Medicine
• Integrate Pubmed Central Style Checker / Article Previewer
• Add Docbook, Erudit DTD export schema
• Add initial Scribus 1.5 DTD export schema

Framework

• Add form data validation
• Better error/warning messages (eg. citations, required fields, etc.)
• Full I18n and L10n to French, Spanish

Tutorials

• Five steps to an XML document by Tarek Lubani