Index of /cxproc/contrib/pie/tmp

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	demo-contacts.html	2009-06-01 21:23	1.1K
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	dir.pie	2009-06-01 21:23	34K
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	links.html	2009-06-01 21:23	3.5K
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	menue.html	2009-06-01 21:23	1.3K
	pie.css	2009-06-01 21:23	4.6K
	pk-funktion.png	2009-06-01 21:23	790

A (C)onfigurable (X)ml (PROC)essor: „cxproc“

AUTHOR and HOMEPAGE

Alexander Tenbusch http://www.tenbusch.info/cxproc/

DESCRIPTION

Cxproc is a configurable processor for XML-XSL fans. Its a portable frontend for the GNOME libraries libxml2 and libxslt under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2 (s. file COPYING in source code).

Main features

1. configurable frontend for XSL transformations „parse XML once, XSL transforms often“ (via caching of DOMs)
2. simple substitutions inside configurations
• fixed strings,
• date and time related format strings (like date command).
• command line arguments,
• environment variables,
• HTTP/CGI data,
3. XML configurable make processor for XML, XSL, XHTML, Plain text
• Plain text to XML processor (Emacs outline mode, line mode and a tabulator separated mode)
• XML Calendar generator
• XML Directory listings (levels of verbosity)
• Petrinet (path searching and graph imgaes via Graphviz)
• Rudimentary image processing (via linked ImageMagick libs on Linux)
• MySQL query results into XML (Draft on Linux)

Some Minor features are

• multithreading on demand (eg. multiple synchronous downloads)
• transforming from data → instructions → data → ... (like self generating instructions)
• recursive search for files using the directory tree (like $PATH or kpathsea lib)
• simple „system“ calls for messages, directory change or external scripts
• configurable log levels for developing of complex configurations

Advantages

• With the multi step approach its easy to develop smaller, less complex XML stylesheets.
• There is a good performance with libxml2 and other libraries in C.
• Configurations are usable on command line, scripts, file manager menus and webservers (Apache/CGI tested only yet).
• good for prototyping of complete websites and stylesheets
• Its a modular extensible approach with cxproc modules as core and applications in contrib directory.
• on top of this tool its easy to develop own XML/XSL based applications
• usable on GNU/Linux and MS Windows

Download/Installation/Package

Downloads are in ../../../download

The source code in is marked up for Doxygen (s. left menu frame).

DTD files are ../../../cxp.dtd and ../../../pie.dtd

Linux

Binary package for Ubuntu GNU/Linux is available (s. above).

From source code archive you can use automake/autoconf the valid method on Linux:

tar xzf cxproc.tar.gz
cd cxproc
./configure
make install

The files for Debian package building are included (default configuration without MySQL, Audio and Image features).

MS Windows XP

The MS Windows native binaries and contrib stuff are in a cxproc-*-win32.zip

1. unzip in a own directory
2. in Explorer connect extension .cxp with „...\cxproc\bin\cxproc.exe“ (full path)
3. double click at any cxp file to perform the included XML transformations (s. examples in contrib directory)

The project files for Microsoft Visual C++ are included.

Use of mingw/msys for compiling ist not supported yet because problems with creation of „libxslt.dll“.

Contributions and Applications

s. content of ../../../contrib

1. there are configurations and stylsheets for a „Personal Information Environment“ (PIE) with
• Todo
• Calendar
• Project planning and tracking
• writing an article
• ...
• These simple pages are generated using the named features.
2. PKG2 s. ../../pkg2/tmp/ and http://pkg2.tenbusch.info/

Corresponding software

For Software development were used

• GNU Compiler Collection http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/
• GNU Project Debugger http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/
• GNU Emacs http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
• Valgrind http://valgrind.org/
• „Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express“ and „Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express“ http://www.microsoft.com/germany/msdn/vstudio/products/express/visualc/default.mspx
• lintian http://lintian.debian.org/
• splint http://www.splint.org/
• libxml2 http://xmlsoft.org/
• libxslt http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/
• PTHREADS-WIN32 from http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/
• PCRE http://www.pcre.org/
• MySQL http://mysql.com/
• ImageMagick http://www.imagemagick.org/
• Apache HTTP Server http://httpd.apache.org/
• Mozilla Firefox with Add-ons „Webdeveloper“, „Firebug“ and „HttpFox“ http://www.mozilla.org/
• libid3tag http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/
• Very useful tool in „DLL hell MS Windows“ is http://www.dependencywalker.com/
• „Calendar Algorithms and the Church Year“ http://www.punctum.com/interest/caltime/index.de.html

Some applications good for collaboration

• GNU Emacs
• Freemind http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
• GNU calendar http://www.gnu.org/software/gcal/gcal.html
• Mozilla Firefox with extension „Document Map“