[jsword-devel] JSword servlet usage.

[Joe Walker]

http://ajaxian.com/archives/xpathxslt-support-in-safari
Might help.

Joe.

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 4:13 AM, DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I found out that this does not work on the Mac. I've narrowed down the
> problem to Safari not having an XSLT processor. I'm looking into
> alternatives.
>
> -- DM
>
> On Apr 18, 2008, at 1:42 PM, DM Smith wrote:
>
> > I have worked up an example, demo, starting point of how to use JSword
> > in a servlet using DWR - Direct Web Remoting.
> >
> > Here is a tutorial on how to do it:
> > http://www.crosswire.org/jsword/tutorial.html
> >
> > Here is a somewhat working version of it.
> > (I don't have any of these indexed, so search does not work.)
> > http://www.crosswire.org:8080/jsword/iBD.html
> >
> > This doesn't follow the tutorial exactly. I had to tweak the dwr
> > javascript inclusions.
> >
> > There are some shortcomings in this example:
> > 1) Because all the links are handled via java script, it never leaves
> > the page. Hitting the brower's back button does not take you to the
> > prior verse. It would be really nice to have history.
> > 2) There are no options, e.g. show/hide notes/Strong's/xrefs/verse
> > numbers/verse per line, .... There should be.
> > 3) This does no caching at all.
> >    a) It should cache the XSLT processor. During development, you
> > don't
> > want caching.
> >    b) In doing options, we should cache the dom for the current view.
> > No sense in getting it again.
> >    c) It may make sense to cache the dom for some items in history.
> > 4) It does not make good use of JavaScript. These are pretty trivial.
> >    a) Rather than notes in a sidebar, it would be good to have a hover
> > enabled popup of the note body.
> >    b) Implement Strong's and Robinson's morphology lookup into a
> > popup.
> > Currently, it does these are not handled at all.
> >    c) Perhaps highlight all words on the page having the same Strong's
> > number.
> >    d) The javascript constrains the return to 100 verses to prevent
> > overloading the server with a request like: Gen-Rev. It would be
> > good to
> > be able to get the next "n" verses.
> >    e) Allow dictionary lookup of a displayed word.
> >    f) The search input box and button should be disabled when a book
> > is
> > not indexed.
> > 5) It makes no use of Cookies:
> >    a) It would be good to have it remember current state
> >       - Current Bible.
> >       - Current passage.
> >       - Last lookup
> >       - History
> >       - Settings, e.g. show hide
> >    b) Allow the user to prune the Bible list to only those that they
> > care about.
> > 6) Handle right-to-left languages.
> > 7) Allow for the specification of where to look for modules and an
> > alternate location ~/.jsword. (This is a shortcoming in JSword that
> > should be fixed.)
> >    Right now it looks at every conceivable location for SWORD modules
> > and it will let you specify additional locations. There is no way to
> > prune the list or to specify that it should only look in a given
> > location.
> >    Right now it will only look at ~/.jsword, which must be writable.
> > In
> > a Tomcat installation, this might not be a desirable location. Today
> > this can be changed by changing the jsword.home property. There should
> > be an easier way to override this.
> > 8) It is not internationalized. It'd be cool to grab the text from
> > BibleDesktop.
> > 9) The UI is merely functional. That is, it is ugly. Make it look much
> > nicer.
> > ......
> >
> > I'd also like to add a menu and toolbar. Perhaps, with the toolbar
> > hiding the locate and search text inputs behind icons.
> >
> > I'm sure you can add to this list. Feedback welcomed.
> >
> > In Him,
> >    DM
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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