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2002-05-08

At last a new version ( 0.4.2 )! I integrated styler and a SAX filter to wrap <h1> and <h2> paragraphs inside <div> tags. Thus the generated files are valid with respect to the HTML DTD, which was not the case when <p> wrapper tags were used. User documentation has been updated. Now I will work on eXist (XML database) integration.

2002-04-16

I used to be very busy (writing a Java application for a customer) these last months. However for XMLPublication I recently wrote a SAX filter to replace the XSLT transform that wraps paragraphs inside HTML tags, but it's not yet integrated into the build.xml . I also got interested in other projects:

styler , a Task for Ant; it makes useful combinations of XSLT transformations and SAX filters.
Regular Fragmentations , made by Simon St.Laurent who is very active on the xml-dev list, a SAX filter that allows to specify rules using regular expressions for new element creation
eXist has at last added a direct API for XPath queries (before it used to be client-server only ), so it is easy to put an XMLPublication database with search engine on a plain Internet Service Provider

2002-02-17

I just downloaded and compiled the last version of Tidy (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/). I had been using an old version from august 2000. Now we have support for Excel 2000 "HTML" files. So it is not necessary to use the SpreadSheet-ParseExcel Perl module to read directly .xls files.

Another exciting possibility is to make the group-by-headers.xslt step (wrapping of h1 and h2 paragraphs inside p tags, see XML basic Structure ) using tidy . This XSLT algorithm is not efficient and probably not enhanceable.

J'ai fait un fichier de commande Ant qui va télécharger les mises à jour qu'il faut à partir du site. Pour ça, il faut télécharger http://wwbota.free.fr/XMLPublication/build-install.xml C'est la seule chose qu'il faut télécharger a la mano. Ensuite, se mettre dans le répertoire d'install. de XMLPub, ou un répertoire vide, et taper:

ant -f build-install.xml -logfile ant.log -verbose

ou + simplement: ant -f build-install.xml Si on est dans le répertoire d'install. de XMLPub, ça va télécharger ce qu'il y a de nouveau . Si on est dans un répertoire vide, ça va télécharger toute la distribution .

Note 1: Je vais continuer à faire du lobying chez jakarta.apache/ant pour que même le build-install.xml puisse être accédé directement par ant.

Note 2: J'ai un petit fichier Perl qui crée le build-install.xml à partir de ce que j'ai mis dans mon référenciel CVS : http://wwbota.free.fr/XMLPublication/build-install.gen.pl

J'ai bien avancé sur le moteur de requête eXist avec XMLPub, il y a plusieurs morceaux déjà prêts à intégrer:

génération d'une page de saisie de requêtes (ant search.html)
génération de requêtes XPath en Javascript, du genre:
p [p[h2='Rubric name'][contains(.,'keyword')]]
génération de la base XML à partir de build.xml ant
adapter les pages d'exemples en XSP de eXist
aspect production sur site
- have the database running as a daemon: initialize it in the init() of a servlet

2001-11-24

XMLPublication has been annonced on xml-dev@lists.xml.org, xml-tech@xmlfr.org, news:comp.text.xml, news:fr.comp.text.xml, Web Guild, xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com, ant mailing list, XSLT FAQ, Michael Kay, ...

Although this wasn't yet an audience success, XMLPublication goes on. I work on integrating eXist, an XPath engine, for a point-and-click search engine. Also along with this Cocoon2 will be used for dynamic content, allowing among other features to highlight searched words in generated pages. XMLPublication will be annonced on freshmeat.net and referenced on http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/external.html .

2001-11-09

Version 0.3 (see versions.html ), the first version without ANY file edit by user.

2001-11-04

Version 0.2.98.2 (see versions.html )

2001-11-01

Completion of the page Enhancement Requests, future

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