[Babeldoc-user] Questions. Please Help

[Qin D. <qd...@cs...>]

I am trying to use this tool.  From what I read, this is an excellent tool
for me. I read the user guide and white paper and usage documents and
developer guide twice and I am still not sure of how to put this project
together.

My babeldoc home (BABELDOC_HOME env variable)
c:\babeldoc
It has lib and bin directory which has all the scripts and jar files from
your build/lib and build/bin. In c:\babeldoc\lib, it also has my own jar
(longlegs-validation.jar) and apache common-validator.jar

My project home
c:\myproject\longlegs\
In your documents, at one place, it states that I need to set up USER_DIR
env variable pointing to this project directory; and at another place in
the document, it asks to include this directory in the classpath. Which way
should I go?

Under the longlegs folder, I have
config folder
config/scanner sub-folder.  In here, I have config.properties for the
scanner like this:

daddy-longlegs.type=directory
daddy-longlegs.period=10000
daddy-longlegs.inDirectory=/daddy/longlegs/in
daddy-longlegs.doneDirectory=/daddy/longlegs/done
daddy-longlegs.pipeline=longlegs

pipeline folder.  In here, I have config.properties like this:

longlegs.type=simple
longlegs.configFile=pipeline/simple/longlegs

pipeline/simple folder.  In here, I have longlegs.properties, and
flat2xml-convert.xml like this:

entryStage=validate
validate.stageType=DataValidation
validate.nextStage=convert

convert.stageType=FlatToXml
convert.nextStage=transform
convert.flatToXmlFile=/longlegs/pipeline/simple/flat2xml-convert.xml

transform.stageType=XslTransform
transform.nextStage=null

flat2xml-convert.xml is omitted here. It is the copy of yours.

journal
journal/simple

Also
I have created two directories
C:\daddy\longlegs\in
C:\daddy\longlegs\done

I want to drop a flat file (delimited by comma, or tab, or vertical bar) in
c:\daddy\longlegs\in folder.  The scanner should pass the file to my
pipeline stage "DataValidation".  I need to write this pipeline stage.  As
I understand, all I need to do is to subclass the PipelineStage.  In that
class, I should implement process method to call my validation logics,
which I have jar-ed and deployed in c:\babeldoc\lib directory along with
apache common-validator.

Now, where should I deploy my pipelineStage DataValidation class? In my
longlegs/pipeline directory or some new directory I should add to the
longlegs/pipeline directory?

A validation report (html) is dynamically generated during the validation
stage. This report, Not original flat file, needs to be mailed out. How do
I add the report from my DataValidate stage to the mail pipelineStage?
Also, I believe I can use the FileWriter pipelineStage to write the html
report out.  So, the key is to introduce the report to the mail and
filewriter stage, not the original flat file.  How do I do that?

If I can successfully put all these together quickly, I'd like to present
this tool to my manager for considering to use in our next project.  Your
help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Qin
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