Richard,
Martijn van Welie's been hacking away at something like this for a
bit - check it out :o)
http://www.welie.com/patterns/index.html
indeed he has. I devote some space in the original webpatterns
article to discussing the strengths and weaknesses of what Martijn
has done.
There are three shortcomings I see
1. its not collaborative and I feel the domain is too big, with too
many specialties for one person to be able to develop a pattern
language in this way
2. There is no real organizing principle - essentially it's a
catalogue not a "language". I'll be posting my outline for the
structure of the webpattern language soon - its structured and
hierarchical
3. It's not generative - it doesn't capture the interrelationships
between patterns (complex patterns like sites are made up of others
like pages, which in turn are made up page sub parts and so on).
I do detail this in the original article,
http://westciv.typepad.com/dog_or_higher/2005/11/webpatterns_and.html
thanks
john
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