The Third Week: June 18 - June 22

Summary

At my meeting on Monday, I got a lot of questions about the project cleared up. I had been thinking about a few things wrong, and I was able to get a better understanding of some issues and move forward.

I looked at design options for DTDs for changes metadata. I came up with a few examples, and some choices/tradeoffs that would need to be made. In this process I found that I needed more information about how XML is parsed, and so I was back and forth to the online reference I'd been using too.

From there I started looking at the DejaVOO documentation, trying to get a sense of the specifics of the algorithm and the implementation. At the same time, I started looking into Java/XML packages to figure out what I would need to modify the DejaVOO algorithm.