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1 # ⛩️📰 书社
2
3 <b>An X·S·L·T‐based static site generator.</b>
4
5 <dfn>⛩️📰 书社</dfn> aims to make it easy to generate websites with
6 X·S·L·T and G·N·U Make.
7 It is consequently only a good choice for people who like X·S·L·T and
8 G·N·U Make and wish it were easier to make websites with them.
9
10 It makes things easier by :⁠—
11
12 - Automatically identifying source files and characterizing them by
13 type (X·M·L, text, or asset).
14
15 - Parsing supported text types into X·M·L trees.
16
17 - Enabling easy inclusion of source files within each other.
18
19 It aims to do this with zero dependencies beyond the programs already
20 installed on your computer.
21
22 ## Nomenclature
23
24 <i lang="cmn-Hans">书社</i> is a Chinese word meaning “publishing
25 house”.
26
27 The first character, <i lang="cmn-Hans">书</i>, is the simplified form
28 of “document”.
29
30 The second character, <i lang="cmn-Hans">社</i>, contemporarily means
31 “association”, but historically referred to the god of the soil and
32 related altars or festivities.
33 In Japanese, it is an alternate spelling for <i lang="ja">やしろ</i>,
34 the word for “Shinto shrine”.
35
36 The name <i lang="cmn-Hans">书社</i> was chosen to play on this pun, as
37 it is intended as a publishing program for webshrines.
38
39 In Ascii environments, ⛩️📰 书社 should be written `Shushe`, following
40 the pinyin transliteration.
41
42 ## Basic Usage
43
44 Place source files in `sources/` and run `make install` to compile
45 the result to `public/`.
46 Compilation involves the following steps :⁠—
47
48 1. ⛩️📰 书社 compiles all of the magic files in `magic/` into a single
49 file, `build/magic.mgc`.
50
51 2. ⛩️📰 书社 processes all of the parsers in `parsers/` and determines
52 the list of supported plaintext types.
53
54 3. ⛩️📰 书社 identifies all of the source files and includes and uses
55 `build/magic.mgc` to classify them by media type.
56
57 4. ⛩️📰 书社 parses all plaintext and X·M·L source files and includes
58 and then builds a dependency tree between them.
59
60 5. ⛩️📰 书社 uses the dependency tree to establish prerequisites for
61 each output file.
62
63 6. ⛩️📰 书社 compiles each output file to `build/public`.
64
65 7. ⛩️📰 书社 copies the output files to `public`.
66
67 You can use `make list` to list each identified source file or include
68 alongside its computed type and dependencies.
69 As this is a Make‐based program, steps will only be run if the
70 corresponding buildfile or output file is older than its
71 prerequisites.
72
73 ## Namespaces
74
75 The ⛩️📰 书社 namespace is `urn:fdc:ladys.computer:20231231:Shu1She4`.
76
77 This document uses a few namespace prefixes, with the following
78 meanings :⁠—
79
80 | Prefix | Expansion |
81 | -------: | :----------------------------------------- |
82 | `html:` | `http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml` |
83 | `xlink:` | `http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink` |
84 | `xslt:` | `http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform` |
85 | `书社:` | `urn:fdc:ladys.computer:20231231:Shu1She4` |
86
87 ## Setup and Configuration
88
89 ⛩️📰 书社 depends on the following programs to run.
90 In every case, you may supply your own implementation by overriding the
91 corresponding (allcaps) variable (e·g, set `MKDIR` to supply your own
92 `mkdir` implementation).
93
94 - `cat`
95 - `cp`
96 - `date`
97 - `echo`
98 - `file`
99 - `find`
100 - `mkdir` (requires support for `-p`)
101 - `mv`
102 - `printf`
103 - `rm`
104 - `sed`
105 - `sleep`
106 - `stat`
107 - `test`
108 - `touch`
109 - `tr` (requires support for `-d`)
110 - `uuencode` (requires support for `-m` and `-r`)
111 - `xmlcatalog` (provided by `libxml2`)
112 - `xmllint` (provided by `libxml2`)
113 - `xsltproc` (provided by `libxslt`)
114
115 The following additional variables can be used to control the behaviour
116 of ⛩️📰 书社 :⁠—
117
118 - **`SRCDIR`:**
119 The location of the source files (default: `sources`).
120
121 - **`INCLUDEDIR`:**
122 The location of the source files (default: `sources/includes`).
123 This can be inside of `SRCDIR`, but needn’t be.
124
125 - **`BUILDDIR`:**
126 The location of the (temporary) build directory (default: `build`).
127
128 - **`DESTDIR`:**
129 The location of directory to output files to (default: `public`).
130
131 - **`THISDIR`:**
132 The location of the ⛩️📰 书社 `GNUmakefile`.
133 This should be set automatically when calling Make and shouldn’t ever
134 need to be set manually.
135 This variable is used to find the ⛩️📰 书社 `lib/` folder, which is
136 expected to be in the same location.
137
138 - **`MAGICDIR`:**
139 The location of the magic files to use (default: `$(THISDIR)/magic`).
140
141 - **`FINDOPTS`:**
142 Options to pass to `find` when searching for source files (default:
143 `-LE`).
144
145 - **`FINDRULES`:**
146 Rules to use with `find` when searching for source files (default:
147 `-flags -nohidden -and -not -name '.*'`).
148
149 - **`PARSERS`:**
150 A white·space‐separated list of parsers to use (default:
151 `$(THISDIR)/parsers/*.xslt`).
152
153 - **`TRANSFORMS`:**
154 A white·space‐separated list of transforms to use (default:
155 `$(THISDIR)/transforms/*.xslt`).
156
157 - **`XMLTYPES`:**
158 A white·space‐separated list of media types to consider X·M·L
159 (default: `application/xml text/xml`).
160
161 - **`VERBOSE`:**
162 If this variable has a value, every recipe instruction will be
163 printed when it runs (default: empty).
164 This is helpful for debugging, but typically too noisy for general
165 usage.
166
167 ## Source Files
168
169 Source files may be placed in `SRCDIR` in any manner; the file
170 structure used there will match the output.
171 The type of source files is *not* determined by file extension, but
172 rather by magic number; this means that files **must** begin with
173 something recognizable.
174 Supported magic numbers include :⁠—
175
176 - `<?xml` for `application/xml` files
177 - `#!js` for `text/javascript` files
178 - `@charset "` for `text/css` files
179 - `#!tsv` for `text/tab-separated-values` files
180 - `%%` for `text/record-jar` files (unregistered; see
181 [[draft-phillips-record-jar-01][]])
182
183 Text formats with associated X·S·L·T parsers are wrapped in a H·T·M·L
184 `<script>` element whose `@type` gives its media type, and then
185 passed to the parser to process.
186 Source files whose media type does not have an associated X·S·L·T
187 parser are considered “assets” and will not be transformed.
188
189 For compatibility with this program, source filenames should conform to
190 the following rules :⁠—
191
192 - They should not start with a hyphen‐minus.
193 This is to prevent confusion between filenames and options on the
194 commandline.
195
196 - They should not contain spaces, colons, percent signs, backticks,
197 question marks, hashes, or backslashes.
198
199 In general, filenames should be such that they do not require
200 percent‐encoding in the path component of an i·r·i.
201
202 ## Parsers
203
204 Parsers are used to convert plaintext files into X·M·L trees, as well
205 as convert plaintext formats which are already included inline in
206 existing source X·M·L documents.
207 ⛩️📰 书社 comes with some parsers; namely :⁠—
208
209 - **`parsers/plain.xslt`:**
210 Wraps `text/plain` contents in a `<html:pre>` element.
211
212 - **`parsers/tsv.xslt`:**
213 Converts `text/tab-separated-values` contents into an `<html:table>`
214 element.
215
216 New ⛩️📰 书社 parsers should have a `<xslt:template>` element with no
217 `@name` or `@mode` and whose `@match` attribute…
218
219 - Starts with an appropriately‐namespaced qualified name for a
220 `<html:script>` element.
221
222 - Follows this with the string `[@type=`.
223
224 - Follows this with a quoted string giving a media type supported by
225 the parser.
226 Media type parameters are *not* supported.
227
228 - Follows this with the string `]`.
229
230 For example, the trivial `text/plain` parser is defined as follows :⁠—
231
232 ```xml
233 <?xml version="1.0"?>
234 <transform
235 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
236 xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
237 version="1.0"
238 >
239 <template match="html:script[@type='text/plain']">
240 <html:pre><value-of select="."/></html:pre>
241 </template>
242 </transform>
243 ```
244
245 ⛩️📰 书社 will scan the provided parsers for this pattern to determine
246 the set of allowed plaintext file types.
247 Multiple such `<xslt:template>` elements may be provided in a single
248 parser, for example if the parser supports multiple media types.
249 Alternatively, you can set the `@书社:supported-media-types` attribute
250 on the root element of the parser to override media type support
251 detection.
252
253 It is **strongly recommended** that all templates in parsers other than
254 those described above be namespaced (by `@name` or `@mode`), to avoid
255 conflicts between templates in multiple parsers.
256
257 ## Embedding
258
259 Documents can be embedded in other documents using a `<书社:link>`
260 element with `@xlink:show="embed"`.
261 The `@xlink:href`s of these elements should have the format
262 `about:shushe?source=<path>`, where `<path>` provides the path to the
263 file within `SRCDIR`.
264 Includes, which do not generate outputs of their own but may still be
265 freely embedded, instead use the format
266 `about:shushe?include=<path>`, where `<path>` provides the path
267 within `INCLUDEDIR`.
268
269 Embeds are replaced with the parsed contents of a file, unless the file
270 is an asset, in which case an `<html:object>` element is produced
271 instead (with the contents of the asset file provided as a base64
272 `data:` u·r·i).
273
274 Embedding takes place after parsing but before transformation, so
275 parsers are able to generate their own embeds.
276 ⛩️📰 书社 is able to detect the transitive embed dependencies of files
277 and update them accordingly; it will signal an error if the
278 dependencies are recursive.
279
280 ## Transforms
281
282 Transforms are used to convert X·M·L files into their final output,
283 after all necessary parsing and embedding has taken place.
284 ⛩️📰 书社 comes with some transforms; namely :⁠—
285
286 - **`transforms/attributes.xslt`:**
287 Applies transforms to the children of any `<书社:apply-attributes>`
288 elements, and then applies the attributes of the
289 `<书社:apply-attributes>` to each result child, replacing the
290 element with the result.
291 This is useful in combination with image embeds to apply alt‐text to
292 the resulting `<html:img>`.
293
294 - **`transforms/asset.xslt`:**
295 Converts `<html:object>` elements which correspond to recognized
296 media types into the appropriate H·T·M·L elements, and deletes
297 `<html:style>` elements from the body of the document and moves
298 them to the head.
299
300 - **`transforms/metadata.xslt`:**
301 Provides basic `<html:head>` metadata.
302 This metadata is generated from `<html:meta>` elements with one o.
303 the following `@itemprop` attributes :⁠—
304
305 - **`urn:fdc:ladys.computer:20231231:Shu1She4:title`:**
306 Provides the title of the page.
307
308 ⛩️📰 书社 automatically encapsulates embeds so that their metadata
309 does not propogate up to the embedding document.
310 To undo this behaviour, remove the `@itemscope` and `@itemtype`
311 attributes from the embed during the transformation phase.
312
313 The following are recommendations on effective creation of
314 transforms :⁠—
315
316 - Make template matchers as specific as possible.
317 It is likely an error if two transforms have templates which match
318 the same element (unless the templates have different priority).
319
320 - Namespace templates (with `@name` or `@mode`) whenever possible.
321
322 - Set `@exclude-result-prefixes` on the root `xslt:transform` element
323 to reduce the number of declared namespaces in the final result.
324
325 The params `$buildtime`, `$srctime`, and `$path` are available within
326 transforms and are initialized to the current time, the time that the
327 source file was last modified, and the path of the output file within
328 $(DESTDIR).
329
330 ## Output Wrapping
331
332 ⛩️📰 书社 will wrap the final output of the transforms in appropriate
333 `<html:html>` and `<html:body>` elements, so it is not necessary for
334 transforms to do this explicitly.
335 After performing the initial transform, ⛩️📰 书社 will match the root
336 node of the result in the following modes to fill in areas of the
337 wrapper :⁠—
338
339 - **`书社:header`:**
340 The result of matching in this mode is prepended into the
341 `<html:body>` of the output (before the transformation result).
342
343 - **`书社:footer`:**
344 The result of matching in this mode is appended into the
345 `<html:body>` of the output (after the transformation result).
346
347 - **`书社:metadata`:**
348 The result of matching in this mode is inserted into the
349 `<html:head>` of the output.
350
351 In addition to being called with the transform result, each of these
352 modes will additionally be called with a `<xslt:include>` element
353 corresponding to each transform.
354 If a transform has a `<书社:id>` top‐level element whose value is an
355 i·r·i, its `<xslt:import>` element will have a corresponding
356 `@书社:id` attribute.
357 This mechanism can be used to allow transforms to insert content
358 without matching any elements in the result; for example, the
359 following transform adds a link to a stylesheet to the `<html:head>`
360 of every page :⁠—
361
362 ```xml
363 <?xml version="1.0"?>
364 <transform
365 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
366 xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
367 xmlns:xslt="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
368 xmlns:书社="urn:fdc:ladys.computer:20231231:Shu1She4"
369 exclude-result-prefixes="书社"
370 version="1.0"
371 >
372 <书社:id>example:add-stylesheet-links.xslt</书社:id>
373 <template match="xslt:include[@书社:id='example:add-stylesheet-links.xslt']" mode="书社:metadata">
374 <html:link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/style.css"/>
375 </template>
376 </transform>
377 ```
378
379 Output wrapping can be entirely disabled by adding a
380 `@书社:disable-output-wrapping` attribute to the top‐level element in
381 the result tree.
382
383 ## License
384
385 Source files are licensed under the terms of the <cite>Mozilla Public
386 License, version 2.0</cite>.
387 For more information, see [LICENSE](./LICENSE).
388
389 [draft-phillips-record-jar-01]: <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-phillips-record-jar-01>
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