[jsword-devel] JSword now handles images
DM Smith
dmsmith555 at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 5 04:35:13 MST 2006
I have added support for images to JSword. Both ThML <img> and OSIS
<figure> are supported.
It is expected that the src attribute of these tags uses a reference
from the root directory where the module is held. If the images are
in an images subdirectory, say for the KJV, then you might see
<figure src="/images/pic.jpg"/> in OSIS or <img src="/images/pic.jpg"/
> in ThML. SWORD requires them to be preceded with / as if each
module was a separate web server/application.
In making this change, I made the location of the directory
containing mods.d and modules a URL attribute of BookMetaData. For
lack of a better name I named this location the "Library" since it
houses one or more books. Also, in the same fashion, I added another
URL attribute to BookMetaData to represent the root location of the
files for a module and called it "Location" for lack of a better
name. It is this to which relative references refer.
This information used to be held by
org.crosswire.jsword.sword.AbstractBackend. So it has been moved from
there. While this was a big checkin, it simplified the code.
Unfortunately for BibleDesktop, the HTML renderer does not understand
<base href="baseurl"/>. So each crafted <img> tag needs to have the
image path assembled.
If your target is a real browser, using base is preferred. But, since
SWORD modules use absolute references, you will need to remove the
leading '/' when crafting the src attribute of the <img> tag.
I mentioned that these locations are URLs. This will allow for remote
modules in the future.
In His Service,
DM
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