Introduction to Cathedral Building Theory

Foreword: about the NKdeE website

• ...welcome to my playground, mon semblable...

"...the purpose of this website is to build the Cathedral Game. The Cathedral itself is absent. The purpose of the Cathedral Game is to build or find the Cathedral. The Cathedral wants to be found, but because it is absent it tries to help you (and me) build the game, for instance by creating (or having me create) satellite processes that have a potential of leading towards the Cathedral..."

...that may sound absurd or even crazy, but in fact the only thing weird about it is that i'm using recursive definitions in the language-logic of the sentences above. Ordinary language, and indeed, the whole of nature, is, from a human point of view, (ontologically) full of recursive definitions, this website is being built on a recursively defined idea...

... i didn't wake up one sunny morning with all this weirdness in my head all of a sudden. It happened gradually, rolling downhill like a snowball, until it got so bad that nowadays i mostly wake up thinking 'my god what have i gotten myself into'. I started out last year with a simple attempt to make some web content management stuff to efficiently publish my poems and a few months later i end up with this kind of thing, giving my poor brain all kinds of headaches...

...For instance: I started out including this introduction in my general artistic way of working because it seemed a very artistically interesting way of doing it, but i realise now i will have to allow for some external methods, just to make myself clear and avoid having to complain to everybody that they don't understand what i'm talking about. Being the great genius, or poet maudit, that is misunderstood by his contemporaries might be an ambition for some, i'm just a fairly plain poet from Kessel-lo explaining himself very inadequately about a fairly interesting idea that might turn out to be too big to handle on my own...

But let's get practical & a bit technical first, before i drift of again.You will need some technical info to understand what it is i'm talking about...

1. About the NKdeE Publishing Framework

... the NKdeE is also based on an XSD schema. An xsd schema file is the eXtended language Schema Definition file underlying an xml file that has the schema attributed to it. If you don't know zilch about xml try this url to get you startedlink to low-level xml intro. This means that all the content of the website would go into several xml-files in order to make it easily updatable through a central administration page were i would be spending most of my time whistling away and making art on the fly...

Basically such an application works like this:

The hypothesis, the development method and its conceptual frame

• Internet Link #1
• Internet Link #2
• Book Source #1
• Book Source #2

Ideas for the paper

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