I remember John McCarthy having a Meta Data handling system integrated
into ACEDB. However, we could also use a normal ACEDB to handle the
schema description.
I tried a 10-minute test:
1. add a class (to {models,classes,options}.wrm):
?Meta KW ?LongText REPEAT
2. run this awk-script on models.wrm:
'/^ *\/\// {next}
/^ *$/ {print; next}
/^\?/ {print "Meta :",$1; $1=""; print "KW",$0; next}
{print "KW",$0}
and redirect its output into a file models.ace
3. in ACEDB, read models (from main menu), then read models.ace
Now for each tag and each pointer a long text can be entered,
altough the text must be a summary on all the places the tag
is used in the model.
2 sample "Long"Texts:
LongText : Full_name
the full name for an Author comes from GDB
Mon Oct 24 18:02:49 MET 1994 dok256
***LongTextEnd***
LongText : ?Clone
Clones come from GDB and RLDB
***LongTextEnd***
And the main work -- writing the text -- remains, of course.
Greetings
Detlef