[sword-devel] CCEL, ThML - volunteers?

[Greg Hellings]

It might be worth noting that ThML is not an import format for SWORD. It's
a display format that basically boils down to HTML plus one or two extra
tags for references.

When I've made ThML based modules in the past, I had to put the files into
imp format where each entry could be styled with ThML. Then the standard
utilities like imp2mod are used to pull the files into the engine.

--Greg

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 9:17 AM nick wright <nickmlb56 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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