TaNaKh XML to XHTML Conversion Demonstration

From the Open Siddur Project Development Wiki

Version 0.3 (r418, January 2010)

• applet (try this first!)
• Java Web Start (JNLP) (an alternative start method).
• sample generated XHTML
• code documentation (generated via javadoc)

Changes

• Cross-browser support: Firefox, IE, Chrome
• New tabs open in the same browser as applet, instead of default browser
• No font installation needed for FF 3.5+ and IE 7+; font-face support used instead
• IE7
  • IE7 no longer breaks font file supplied for font-face
  • bug: no spacing displayed between segments (fixed in IE8)
• Mac support
  • Now using Jetty instead of com.sun.httpserver
  • Caught an exception thrown because of Mac Java 1.6 incompatibility
  • bug OS X 10.5 does not support complex OpenType font layouts (like Ezra SIL uses)
• Improved logging
• Improved code documentation
  • Javadoc API
  • Heavily commented code (Demo.java)
• HTML Validation
  • The compiler web interface validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional
  • Generated muXHTML validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional

Next release goals

Looking forward to our version 0.4, we are aiming to demonstrate the following features.

• Displaying simple siddur recipes: build a new, valid, JLPTEI file with a selection that references data in existing files in order
  • Save locally
  • Save to database (may wait until 0.5)
• Automated transliterations, using SBL or Modern Israeli Hebrew pronunciations in Latin characters
  • Backend support (almost complete)
  • Front-end support (UI can be as simple as a checkbox and/or a drop down list)
  • CSS support for parallel texts