[sword-devel] CCEL, ThML - volunteers?

[nick wright]

I am interested in this opportunity, however I am very inexperienced so it
may take me much longer than someone who is more qualified. I am a huge fan
of the CCEL.
- Nick

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 3:18 AM Peter von Kaehne <refdoc at gmx.net> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> This is a call for volunteers interested in (mostly) English language
> commentaries and general spiritual books.
>
> After a long hiatus of non-communication with CCEL I have been given
> permission to use their ThML files to upload to CrossWire. This is a
> brilliant thing.
>
> Trouble is when I looked at it closer I realised we actually do not
> have any thml2vs like import utility. We do have a utility for general
> books, but not for commentaries. I do see that we have some work on
> scripts for the Calvin commentaries which are CCEL derived, but I had
> not had a deeper look inside that yet.
>
> So, in short - if someone feels willing and called to tackle this
>
> 1) a well described and fully automatised process to create a
> commentary module from ThML source, including XML validation
>
> 2) a well described and preferably fully automatised process to pre-
> process CCEL source to make it clean for further import.
>
> any language, as long as it runs on Linux. C, C++, Perl or Python
> preferred though.
>
> Then, if someone wants to take on a guardian and shepherding role to
> deal with what is on offer and produce quality modules from it, with
> conf files etc etc, this would be hugely appreciated. I will continue
> to deal with the upload.
>
> This is probably a huge opportunity to help us get a large number of
> quality texts from a well reputed source, so it would be wonderful if
> someone or some who are previously maybe not so deeply involved want to
> tackle this.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Peter
>
>
>
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