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Exploring the viability of XML for use in POPIN web sites

Technical Report to POPIN - Czech Republic

Addendum B: downloads

If you have found our project inspiring and useful, you may want to try and to implement in practice the utilities we have described. Their source code is not yet free for dissemination, but programs and configuration files, which you find on your website, are fully available to you. You must have discovered a number of links to various tools in the previous text. Here we present a complete summary of downloadable files. It was our objective to create the proposal of a new standard, taking into account the data exchange between countries. You can write your own programs, which would take indispensable steps in data conversion in order to establish a project in compliance with the described standard. We hope that our programs will save you the "TCO" (Total Cost of Ownership) on your project.

General remarks:
By following the subsequent advice, you will avoid the need to read long tutorials before the use of our tools:

• Running any program from the command line with the parameter "/?" (such as csv2xml /? ) will show you a brief help for use, including the version of the program.
• The DTD file shown in this overview is the first proposal of standard DTD for the whole POPIN. All configuration files must respect it to make the programs working properly. Otherwise, you can modify configuration files according to your needs. The model files are the same as those, which we use when working with real data. You can therefore discover "how we´ve made it."
• If you have any questions, comments, bug reports, etc, establish contact with us either through individuals given in the list of people who drafted the project or simply send a report to the POPIN-CZ team.

The following list contains all downloadable files:

Spreadsheets -> CSV

• Visual Basic module to export multiple workbooks with multiple worksheets into the CSV format [MS Excel 97 / 2000]
• a model worksheet using this module [MS Excel 97 / 2000]
• csv_lang - a tool for the conversion of CSV between the U.S. and Central European CSV style of delimiters (due to problems with MS Office export routines) [Win32]

CSV -> XML

• csv2xml - a tool for the conversion of CSV-formatted data into XML data sets [Win32]
• a model header file
• a model DTD file
• a model XML file which is in compliance with the above-mentioned DTD - a commented version

XML -> HTML

• xmlparse - server-side parser for the creation of layouts (HTML) from XML data. [Win32] [Tru64 Unix 4.0D] [Irix 6.2] [Irix 6.5] [RedHat Linux 5.2] [RedHat Linux 6.0] [SunOS]
• a model file containing parse-rules
• a model CSS file

Batch processing

• A model batch file for the processing of several steps at the same time

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