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A simple XHTML submit form for ProjectX

Preparing ProjectX API requests through the browser's address bar can get quite messy, however inputting the request through a simple form makes it much easier to read.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>ProjectX API</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"/>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>ProjectX API form</h1>
    <p>Enter the Project API XML to send a request to the server.</p>
    <form action="http://rorbuilder.info/api/projectx.cgi" method="post" id="projectx_form">
    <fieldset><legend>xml_project</legend><textarea id="xml_project" name="xml_project" cols="104" rows="20"></textarea></fieldset>
    <div><button type="submit">Submit</button></div>
    </form>
  <p>
    <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img
        src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10"
        alt="Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict" height="31" width="88" style="float:right;  border:0 "/></a>
  </p>
  <p style="clear:float">last updated: 13th April 2008</p>
  
  </body>
</html>

The web page can be seen at http://rorbuilder.info/r/projectx-api/index.html
The following XML request value when submitted should return an XML result containing the results and the method executed.

<project name='whiteboardqueue'>
  <methods>
    <method name='get_user_id'>
      <params/>
    </method>
  </methods>
</project>

eg.

<result method="rtn_get_user_id">
  <get_user_id>36539</get_user_id>
</result>

to html form post get xhtml action api method projectx by jrobertson on Apr 13, 2008

Converting XHTML to XML

Based on the code from 'Convert from HTML to XML with HTML Tidy', this code will read an xhtml file and extract text to gallery.xml as instructed by xhtml2xml.xml

#!/usr/bin/ruby
  
  require 'tidy'
  require 'projxslt'
  
  FILE_PATH = "../"
  
  class Xhtml2Xml
    def convert()
      project = 'xhtml2xml'
      filein = 'xhtml2xml.xml'
      filehtml = 'gallery.html'
      filexml = 'gallery_xhtml.xml'
      xslfile_temp = 'gallery.xsl'
      xslfile = 'xhtml2xml.xsl'
      fileout = 'gallery.xml'
      tidy_config = 'tidy.txt'
      
      project_path = FILE_PATH + project + '/'
      tidy_config_path = project_path + tidy_config
      filein_path = project_path + filein
      filehtml_path = project_path + filehtml
      filexml_path = project_path + filexml
      xslfile_temp_path = project_path + xslfile_temp
      xslfile_path = project_path + xslfile
      fileout_path = project_path + fileout
      
      Tidy.path = '/usr/lib/libtidy.so'

      file = File.new(filehtml_path,'r')
      buffer = file.read
      xml = Tidy.open(:show_warnings=>true) do |tidy|
        tidy.options.output_xml = true
        tidy.load_config(tidy_config_path)
        puts tidy.options.show_warnings
        xml = tidy.clean(buffer)
        puts tidy.errors
        puts tidy.diagnostics
        xml
      end
      
      #strip out the html document type declaration and save the file
      html_declaration = xml[/<!([^>]*>){2}/]
      save_file(filexml_path, xml.gsub(html_declaration,'<html>'))    
      transform(filein_path, xslfile_path, xslfile_temp_path)
      transform(filexml_path, xslfile_temp_path, fileout_path)
      
    end
    
    def transform(xml_filepath, xsl_filepath, save_filepath)
      pxsl = Projxslt.new(xml_filepath, xsl_filepath)
      outfile = pxsl.transform
      save_file(save_filepath, outfile)
    end
    
    def save_file(filepath, buffer)
      file = File.new(filepath,'w') 
      file.puts buffer
      file.close
    end    
  end
  
  if __FILE__ == $0
    h2x = Xhtml2Xml.new()
    h2x.convert()
  end

file: xhtml2xml.xml

<root element="gallery">
  <summary>
    <field element="title" xpath="head/title"/>
  </summary>
  <record xpath="body/center/table/tr/td" element="photo">
    <field xpath="font/br[3]/preceding-sibling::text()[1]" element="title"></field>
    <field xpath="/html/body/table/tr/td[2]/font/br[3]/preceding-sibling::text()[1]" element="date"></field>
    <field xpath="font/br[1]/preceding-sibling::text()[1]" element="image"></field>
    <field xpath="font/br[2]/preceding-sibling::text()[1]" element="description"></field>
  </record>
</root>

file:xhtml2xml.xsl (transforms the file xhtml2xml.xml to file gallery.xsl)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
  <xsl:template match="root">
    <xsl:variable name="colon"><xsl:text>:</xsl:text></xsl:variable>
    
    <xsl:element name="xsl:stylesheet">
      <xsl:attribute name="xmlns{$colon}xsl">
        <xsl:text>http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform</xsl:text>
      </xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="version">
        <xsl:text>1.0</xsl:text>
      </xsl:attribute><xsl:text>
      </xsl:text>

<xsl:element name="xsl:output">
  <xsl:attribute name="method">
    <xsl:text>xml</xsl:text>
  </xsl:attribute>
  <xsl:attribute name="indent">
    <xsl:text>yes</xsl:text>
  </xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element><xsl:text>

</xsl:text>

<xsl:element name="xsl:template">
      <xsl:attribute name="match">
        <xsl:text>html</xsl:text>
      </xsl:attribute><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
      <xsl:element name="{@element}">
      <xsl:apply-templates select="summary"/>

      <xsl:element name="xsl{$colon}for-each">
        <xsl:attribute name="select">
          <xsl:value-of select="record/@xpath"/>
        </xsl:attribute><xsl:text>
    </xsl:text>              

  <xsl:for-each select="record/field">
    <xsl:element name="xsl:variable">
      <xsl:attribute name="name">
        <xsl:value-of select="@element"/>
      </xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="select">
        <xsl:value-of select="@xpath"/>
      </xsl:attribute>
    </xsl:element><xsl:text>
    </xsl:text>
  </xsl:for-each>
<xsl:text>
    </xsl:text>

        <xsl:element name="{record/@element}">
       <xsl:for-each select="record/field">
              <xsl:element name="{@element}"><xsl:text>
        </xsl:text>
            <xsl:element name="xsl:value-of">
              <xsl:attribute name="select"><xsl:text>normalize-space($</xsl:text>
                <xsl:value-of select="@element"/>
                <xsl:text>)</xsl:text>                
              </xsl:attribute>
          </xsl:element>  <xsl:text>
      </xsl:text>
          </xsl:element>

    </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:element><xsl:text>
  </xsl:text>
</xsl:element><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
 
  </xsl:element>
</xsl:element> <!-- template match -->
</xsl:element> <!-- gallery -->
  </xsl:template> 


<xsl:template match="summary/field"><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
      <xsl:element name="xsl:element">
        <xsl:attribute name="name">
          <xsl:value-of select="@element"/>
        </xsl:attribute><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
        <xsl:element name="xsl:value-of">
          <xsl:attribute name="select">
            <xsl:value-of select="@xpath"/>
          </xsl:attribute><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
        </xsl:element><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
      </xsl:element><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

output: gallery.xml (this file is the product of gallery_xhtml.xml and gallery.xsl)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gallery>
  <title>Journey to Windsor</title>
  <photo>
    <title>Windsor Castle</title>
    <date>July 2003</date>
    <image>dscn0824.jpg</image>
    <description>
      A bright, red mailbox inside the castle. It seems oddly familiar in an historic setting.
    </description>
  </photo>
</gallery>

to ruby xml xslt xhtml scrape tidy by jrobertson on Feb 10, 2008

Scrape an XHTML document using Ruby

A simple Ruby script to scrape an XHTML file with the selected content being saved to an xml file ready for transformation into an RSS feed. This example uses the XHTML file from http://newsgang.net/audio/ which is then saved locally as 'thegang.xml'.

#!/usr/bin/ruby
# file: thegang.rb

require 'rexml/document'
include REXML

class TheGang
  def initialize()
  end
  
  def rssify()
    file = File.new('thegang.xml','r')
    doc = Document.new(file)
    rss_doc = Document.new
    root = Element.new('rss')
    rss_doc.add_element(root)
    
    doc.root.elements.each("body/div/ul/li/h2/a") do |node|    
      o_rssitem = Element.new('item')
      o_li = node.parent.parent
      
      o_rsstitle = Element.new('title')
      o_rsstitle.text = node.text.gsub(/[\n,' ']/,'')
      o_rssitem.add_element(o_rsstitle)
      
      o_rsshref_audio = Element.new('href_audio')
      o_rsshref_audio.text = node.attributes.get_attribute('href').to_s.gsub('amp;&','')      
      o_rssitem.add_element(o_rsshref_audio)
      
      o_rsshref = Element.new('href')
      o_rsshref.text = o_rsshref_audio.text.gsub('&amp;from=audio','')      
      o_rssitem.add_element(o_rsshref)
      
      o_rssdate = Element.new('date')
      o_rssdate.text = "#{o_li.elements["p/span[1]"].text} #{o_li.elements["p/span[2]"].text}"
      o_rssitem.add_element(o_rssdate)
      rss_doc.root.add_element(o_rssitem)
      
    end

    file = File.new('thegang_rss.xml','w')
    file.puts rss_doc
    file.close
  end
end


if __FILE__ == $0
  gang = TheGang.new
  gang.rssify
end

see also: www.dapper.net

output (extract)

<rss>
  <item><title>TheGangXII-II</title><href_audio>/gangitem/id=6501&amp;from=audio</href_audio><href>/gangitem/id=6501</href><date>Jan 25</date></item>
  <item><title>TheGangXII-I</title><href_audio>/gangitem/id=6499&amp;from=audio</href_audio><href>/gangitem/id=6499</href><date>Jan 25</date></item>
  <item><title>NewsGangLive01.24.08</title><href_audio>/gangitem/id=6445&amp;from=audio</href_audio><href>/gangitem/id=6445</href><date>Jan 24</date></item>
  <item><title>NewsGangLiveII</title><href_audio>/gangitem/id=6377&amp;from=audio</href_audio><href>/gangitem/id=6377</href><date>Jan 23</date></item>
  ...
</rss>

to ruby rss rexml xhtml scrape by jrobertson on Jan 27, 2008

Running Haml stand-alone

This Ruby code converts HAML to XHTML. code based on the example given at 'A HAML Server for Web Designers' http://urltea.com/23j8 [wiseheartdesign.com].

require 'rubygems'
require 'haml'

def parse_haml(string)
  engine = Haml::Engine.new(string)
  engine.render
end

parse_haml("#hello")

Note: The above code worked on Ubuntu 7.10, and on Gentoo I declared require 'haml/engine' as an alternative to requiring 'rubygems' and 'haml'.

to ruby xhtml haml by jrobertson on Nov 14, 2007

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A simple XHTML submit form for ProjectX

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