[Qtitools-discuss] Parsing QTI

[Graham S. <l3...@ya...>]

Hi All:

Below is a copy of emails from Fawaz.

Can anybody offer him more help?

Graham S


<Fawaz ("F. Ghali" <ana...@ho...>)>
Do you know any JAVA code to parse QTI files?
</Fawaz>

<Graham>
Not quite sure what you mean.

If you mean simply parsing the QTI XML files, then you can use a standard
Java Parser (either a SAX Parser or a DOM parser).
You can find information and example code in Chapters 5 and 6 of 
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/

Do you mean code to render the QTI xml as html (i.e. a fuller
implementation)?
There are one or two opensource locations with Java source code, but there
is not much yet in the way of documentation.

Look for example at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtitools/
which has the JQTI code produced at Southampton University, and also my
own JAssess code.

As I say, there is not a great deal of explanation of the code yet. I
expect this to change in the near future.

The site:
http://qtitools.caret.cam.ac.uk/
is a good place to keep in touch with QTI developments (Look especially in
the Tools
 link of the Main Menu).

Hope that helps

Graham Smith
</Graham>

<Fawaz>
Hi Graham,
Thanks for your reply.
Basically, what I want is to retrieve questions and answers from QTI  ( as
items ) and store them in another XML file (none-QTI).

Using DOM or SAX will be a nightmare to do such job, especially if I don't
have QTI java implementation.

I looked at JQTI: http://jqti.qtitools.org/ which is exactly what I want 
however I couldn't find it.

The link you sent: http://sourceforge.net/projects/qtitools/ has only
validater for QTI  and  does not do parsing.

I was hoping  to find a  parser to extract questions and answerers. That's
is really. 

If you know how I can do it, then please advise.
Thanks.
Fawaz
<Fawaz>

<Graham>
Hi Fawaz:

I do not know of any existing code which will do the relatively restricted job that you want.
There is always a balance in effort between getting to understand 
and adapting someone else's code and writing your own!
It seems that you are going to have to parse the XML, 
and I suggested the DOM parser as a relatively simple system to do this. 
The parser is standard Java: you do not need a QTI java implementation, 
except perhaps as an example. 

I will pass copies of this exchange of notes to a 
QTI discussion group to see if anyone else can help

Graham

</Graham>

       
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