[Scrollkeeper-devel] Re: Scrollkeeper code checked in

[Ali A. <ali...@au...>]

* laszlo kovacs (las...@su...) wrote at 00:02 on 17/10/00:
> Hi,
> 
> I checked in most of the implementation of the proposal from:

This is excellent news! :) I need to check out the code sometime soon. I was
just curious, but perhaps this should be announced to various Documentation
projects (just in case people want to throw in their comments and/or want to
contribute). Of course this should only be done when the code is in a "state"
to accept contributions.
 
> http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/5674/2000/8/0/4271223/
> 
> The following is not implemented:
> 
> - OMF file validation (I don't know how to do this so hints are welcome)

Umm - the OMF file is an XML file, correct? libxml should handle validation I
believe (assuming you are using the DOM parser) ? 

Even if you are using the SAX parser you can enable validation but it is kind
of "ugly". 

Basically I had to create an xmlParserCtxt (see gdb3html.c in the
"parse_file()" function on how I did it), turn on validation there, I think
the errors in validation are handled by the errorSAXFunc or something like
that. With gnome-db2html2 I "silence" these validation messages because:
1) We have DocBook SGML so we get a lot of 'error' messages due non-XML
compliance
2) I think validation in libxml 1.x only works to validate that the document
is proper XML (i.e. it doesn't validate the DTD). Check with Daniel Veillard
about this.

> - the extended content list is not implemented at all
> 
> The Scrollkeeper files go into prefix/var/lib/scrollkeeper.

Umm - which scrollkeeper files are you talking about? Are these the OMF files?
Shouldn't they go into prefix/share/scrollkeeper?

> We seem to have a problem with the locales. Namely OMF language tags
> from the metadata do not match the OS (Linux, Solaris etc) locales. At
> the moment the language tags are used to create the directories for each
> locale (e.g. prefix/var/lib/scrollkeeper/en for English). This should be
> changed to using the OS locale tags and Scrollkeeper should map the OMF
> language tags to the OS locales. I don't know if this is already
> implemented or not (at least for Linux as part of another project). I
> tried to find out from gnome#i18n with not much success. Please share
> any ideas.

How are the OMF tags different than the OS locales?

> There are a couple of small problems with the code that I know about and
> I am working on them, please give it a try and let me know what you
> think.

I'll take a look at my first 'free' opportunity. Thanks for finally checking
this in :)

Regards,
Ali