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1 # ⛩️📰 书社
2
3 <b>A make·file for X·M·L.</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 (On Linux machines, you may need to install `libxml2-utils` to get the
22 commandline programs from `libxml2`.)
23
24 **Note:**
25 ⛩️📰 书社 requires functionality present in G·N·U Make 3.81 (or later)
26 and will not work in previous versions, or other implementations of
27 Make.
28 Compatibility with later versions of G·N·U Make is assumed, but not
29 tested.
30
31 ## Nomenclature
32
33 <i lang="cmn-Hans">书社</i> is a Chinese word meaning “publishing
34 house”.
35
36 The first character, <i lang="cmn-Hans">书</i>, is the simplified form
37 of “document”.
38
39 The second character, <i lang="cmn-Hans">社</i>, contemporarily means
40 “association”, but historically referred to the god of the soil and
41 related altars or festivities.
42 In Japanese, it is an alternate spelling for <i lang="ja">やしろ</i>,
43 the word for “Shinto shrine”.
44
45 The name <i lang="cmn-Hans">书社</i> was chosen to play on this pun, as
46 it is intended as a publishing program for webshrines.
47
48 In Ascii environments, ⛩️📰 书社 should be written `Shushe`, following
49 the pinyin transliteration.
50
51 ## Basic Usage
52
53 Place source files in `sources/` and run `make install` to compile
54 the result to `public/`.
55 Compilation involves the following steps :⁠—
56
57 1. ⛩️📰 书社 compiles all of the magic files in `magic/` into a single
58 file, `build/magic.mgc`.
59
60 2. ⛩️📰 书社 processes all of the parsers in `parsers/` and determines
61 the list of supported plaintext types.
62
63 3. ⛩️📰 书社 identifies all of the source files and includes and uses
64 `build/magic.mgc` to classify them by media type.
65
66 4. ⛩️📰 书社 parses all plaintext and X·M·L source files and includes
67 and then builds a dependency tree between them.
68
69 5. ⛩️📰 书社 uses the dependency tree to establish prerequisites for
70 each output file.
71
72 6. ⛩️📰 书社 compiles each output file to `build/public`.
73
74 7. ⛩️📰 书社 copies the output files to `public`.
75
76 You can use `make list` to list each identified source file or include
77 alongside its computed type and dependencies.
78 As this is a Make‐based program, steps will only be run if the
79 corresponding buildfile or output file is older than its
80 prerequisites.
81
82 ## Namespaces
83
84 The ⛩️📰 书社 namespace is `urn:fdc:ladys.computer:20231231:Shu1She4`.
85
86 This document uses a few namespace prefixes, with the following
87 meanings :⁠—
88
89 | Prefix | Expansion |
90 | -------: | :----------------------------------------- |
91 | `html:` | `http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml` |
92 | `xlink:` | `http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink` |
93 | `xslt:` | `http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform` |
94 | `书社:` | `urn:fdc:ladys.computer:20231231:Shu1She4` |
95
96 ## Setup and Configuration
97
98 ⛩️📰 书社 depends on the following programs to run.
99 In every case, you may supply your own implementation by overriding the
100 corresponding (allcaps) variable (e·g, set `MKDIR` to supply your own
101 `mkdir` implementation).
102
103 - `awk`
104 - `cat`
105 - `cksum`
106 - `cp`
107 - `date`
108 - `echo`
109 - `file`
110 - `find`
111 - `git` (optional; set `GIT=` to disable)
112 - `ln`
113 - `mkdir` (requires support for `-p`)
114 - `mv`
115 - `od` (requires support for `-t x1`)
116 - `printf`
117 - `rm`
118 - `sed`
119 - `sleep`
120 - `stat`
121 - `test`
122 - `touch`
123 - `tr` (requires support for `-d`)
124 - `uuencode` (requires support for `-m` and `-r`)
125 - `xargs` (requires support for `-0`)
126 - `xmlcatalog` (provided by `libxml2`)
127 - `xmllint` (provided by `libxml2`)
128 - `xsltproc` (provided by `libxslt`)
129
130 The following additional variables can be used to control the behaviour
131 of ⛩️📰 书社 :⁠—
132
133 - **`SRCDIR`:**
134 The location of the source files (default: `sources`).
135 Multiple source directories can be provided, so long as the same
136 file subpath doesn’t exist in more than one of them.
137
138 - **`INCLUDEDIR`:**
139 The location of source includes (default: `sources/includes`).
140 This can be inside of `SRCDIR`, but needn’t be.
141 Multiple include directories can be provided, so long as the same
142 file subpath doesn’t exist in more than one of them.
143
144 - **`BUILDDIR`:**
145 The location of the (temporary) build directory (default: `build`).
146 `make clean` will delete this, and it is recommended that it not be
147 used for programs aside from ⛩️📰 书社.
148
149 - **`DESTDIR`:**
150 The location of directory to output files to (default: `public`).
151 `make install` will overwrite files in this directory which
152 correspond to those in `SRCDIR`.
153 It *will not* touch other files, including those generated from files
154 in `SRCDIR` which have since been deleted.
155
156 Files are first compiled to `$(BUILDDIR)/public` before they are
157 copied to `DESTDIR`, so this folder is relatively quick and
158 inexpensive to re·create.
159 It’s reasonable to simply delete it before every `make install` to
160 ensure stale content is removed.
161
162 - **`THISDIR`:**
163 The location of the ⛩️📰 书社 `GNUmakefile`.
164 This should be set automatically when calling Make and shouldn’t ever
165 need to be set manually.
166 This variable is used to find the ⛩️📰 书社 `lib/` folder, which is
167 expected to be in the same location.
168
169 - **`MAGIC`:**
170 A white·space‐separated list of magic files to use (default:
171 `$(THISDIR)/magic/*`).
172
173 - **`EXTRAMAGIC`:**
174 The value of this variable is appended to `MAGIC` by default, to
175 enable additional magic files without overriding the existing ones.
176
177 - **`FINDRULES`:**
178 Rules to use with `find` when searching for source files.
179 The default ignores files that start with a period or hyphen‐minus,
180 those which end with a cloparen, and those which contain a hash,
181 buck, percent, asterisk, colon, semi, eroteme, bracket, backslash,
182 or pipe.
183
184 - **`EXTRAFINDRULES`:**
185 The value of this variable is appended to `FINDRULES` by default, to
186 enable additional rules without overriding the existing ones.
187
188 - **`FINDINCLUDERULES`:**
189 Rules to use with `find` when searching for includes (default:
190 `$(FINDRULES)`).
191
192 - **`EXTRAFINDINCLUDERULES`:**
193 The value of this variable is appended to `FINDINCLUDERULES` by
194 default, to enable additional rules without overriding the existing
195 ones.
196
197 - **`PARSERS`:**
198 A white·space‐separated list of parsers to use (default:
199 `$(THISDIR)/parsers/*.xslt`).
200
201 - **`EXTRAPARSERS`:**
202 The value of this variable is appended to `PARSERS` by default, to
203 enable additional parsers without overriding the existing ones.
204
205 - **`TRANSFORMS`:**
206 A white·space‐separated list of transforms to use (default:
207 `$(THISDIR)/transforms/*.xslt`).
208
209 - **`EXTRATRANSFORMS`:**
210 The value of this variable is appended to `TRANSFORMS` by default, to
211 enable additional transforms without overriding the existing ones.
212
213 - **`XMLTYPES`:**
214 A white·space‐separated list of media types to consider X·M·L
215 (default: `application/xml text/xml`).
216
217 - **`THISREV`:**
218 The current version of ⛩️📰 书社 (default: derived from the current
219 git tag/branch/commit).
220
221 - **`SRCREV`:**
222 The current version of the source files (default: derived from the
223 current git tag/branch/commit).
224
225 - **`VERBOSE`:**
226 If this variable has a value, every recipe instruction will be
227 printed when it runs (default: empty).
228 This is helpful for debugging, but typically too noisy for general
229 usage.
230
231 ## Source Files
232
233 Source files may be placed in `SRCDIR` in any manner; the file
234 structure used there will match the output.
235 The type of source files is *not* determined by file extension, but
236 rather by magic number; this means that files **must** begin with
237 something recognizable.
238 Supported magic numbers include :⁠—
239
240 - `<?xml` for `application/xml` files
241 - `#!js` for `text/javascript` files
242 - `@charset "` for `text/css` files
243 - `#!tsv` for `text/tab-separated-values` files
244 - `%%` for `text/record-jar` files (unregistered; see
245 [[draft-phillips-record-jar-01][]])
246
247 Text formats with associated X·S·L·T parsers are wrapped in a H·T·M·L
248 `<script>` element whose `@type` gives its media type, and then
249 passed to the parser to process.
250 Source files whose media type does not have an associated X·S·L·T
251 parser are considered “assets” and will not be transformed.
252
253 **☡ For compatibility with this program, source file·names must not
254 contain Ascii white·space, colons (`:`), semis (`;`), pipes (`|`),
255 bucks (`$`), percents (`%`), hashes (`#`), asterisks (`*`), brackets
256 (`[` or `]`), erotemes (`?`), backslashes (`\`), or control
257 characters, must not begin with a hyphen‐minus (`-`), and must not
258 end with a cloparen (`)`).**
259 The former characters have the potential to conflict with make syntax,
260 a leading hyphen‐minus is confusable for a command‐line argument, and
261 a trailing cloparen [activates a bug in G·N·U Make
262 3.81](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17148468/capturing-filenames-including-parentheses-with-gnu-makes-wildcard-function#comment24825307_17148894).
263
264 ## Parsers
265
266 Parsers are used to convert plaintext files into X·M·L trees, as well
267 as convert plaintext formats which are already included inline in
268 existing source X·M·L documents.
269 ⛩️📰 书社 comes with some parsers; namely :⁠—
270
271 - **`parsers/plain.xslt`:**
272 Wraps `text/plain` contents in a `<html:pre>` element.
273
274 - **`parsers/record-jar.xslt`:**
275 Converts `text/record-jar` contents into a `<html:div>` of
276 `<html:dl>` elements (one for each record).
277
278 - **`parsers/tsv.xslt`:**
279 Converts `text/tab-separated-values` contents into an `<html:table>`
280 element.
281
282 New ⛩️📰 书社 parsers which target plaintext formats should have an
283 `<xslt:template>` element with no `@name` or `@mode` and whose
284 `@match` attribute…
285
286 - Starts with an appropriately‐namespaced qualified name for a
287 `<html:script>` element.
288
289 - Follows this with the string `[@type=`.
290
291 - Follows this with a quoted string giving a media type supported by
292 the parser.
293 Media type parameters are *not* supported.
294
295 - Follows this with the string `]`.
296
297 For example, the trivial `text/plain` parser is defined as follows :⁠—
298
299 ```xml
300 <?xml version="1.0"?>
301 <transform
302 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
303 xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
304 xmlns:书社="urn:fdc:ladys.computer:20231231:Shu1She4"
305 version="1.0"
306 >
307 <书社:id>example:text/plain</书社:id>
308 <template match="html:script[@type='text/plain']">
309 <html:pre><value-of select="."/></html:pre>
310 </template>
311 </transform>
312 ```
313
314 ⛩️📰 书社 will scan the provided parsers for this pattern to determine
315 the set of allowed plaintext file types.
316 Multiple such `<xslt:template>` elements may be provided in a single
317 parser, for example if the parser supports multiple media types.
318 Alternatively, you can set the `@书社:supported-media-types` attribute
319 on the root element of the parser to override media type support
320 detection.
321
322 Even when `@书社:supported-media-types` is set, it is a requirement
323 that each parser transform any `<html:script>` elements with a
324 `@type` which matches their registered types into something else.
325 Otherwise the parser will be stuck in an endless loop.
326 The result tree of applying the transform to the `<html:script>`
327 element will be reparsed (in case any new `<html:script>` elements
328 were added in its subtree), and a `@书社:parsed-by` attribute will be
329 added to each toplevel element in the result.
330 The value of this attribute will be the value of the `<书社:id>`
331 toplevel element in the parser.
332
333 It is possible for parsers to support zero plaintext types.
334 This is useful when targeting specific dialects of X·M·L; parsers in
335 this sense operate on the same basic principles as transforms
336 (described below).
337 The major distinction between X·M·L parsers and transforms is where in
338 the process the transformation happens:
339 Parsers are applied *prior* to embedding (and can be used to generate
340 embeds); transforms are applied *after*.
341
342 It is **strongly recommended** that auxillary templates in parsers be
343 namespaced (by `@name` or `@mode`) whenever possible, to avoid
344 conflicts between parsers.
345
346 ### Attributes added during parsing
347
348 ⛩️📰 书社 will add a few attributes to the output of the parsing step,
349 namely :⁠—
350
351 - A `@书社:cksum` attribute on toplevel result elements, giving the
352 `cksum` checksum of the corresponding source file.
353
354 - For the elements which result from parsing plaintext `<html:script>`
355 elements :⁠—
356
357 - A `@书社:parsed-by` attribute, giving a space‐separated list of
358 parsers which parsed the node.
359 (Generally, this will be a list of one, but it is possible for the
360 result of a parse to be another plaintext node, which may be
361 parsed by a different parser.)
362
363 - A `@书社:media-type` attribute, giving the identified media type of
364 the plaintext node.
365
366 ## Embedding
367
368 Documents can be embedded in other documents using a `<书社:link>`
369 element with `@xlink:show="embed"`.
370 The `@xlink:href`s of these elements should have the format
371 `about:shushe?source=<path>`, where `<path>` provides the path to the
372 file within `SRCDIR`.
373 Includes, which do not generate outputs of their own but may still be
374 freely embedded, instead use the format
375 `about:shushe?include=<path>`, where `<path>` provides the path
376 within `INCLUDEDIR`.
377
378 Embeds are replaced with the parsed contents of a file, unless the file
379 is an asset, in which case an `<html:object>` element is produced
380 instead (with the contents of the asset file provided as a base64
381 `data:` u·r·i).
382 Embed replacements will be given a `@书社:identifier` attribute whose
383 value will match the `@xlink:href` of the embed.
384
385 Embedding takes place after parsing but before transformation, so
386 parsers are able to generate their own embeds.
387 ⛩️📰 书社 is able to detect the transitive embed dependencies of files
388 and update them accordingly; it will signal an error if the
389 dependencies are recursive.
390
391 ## Output Redirection
392
393 By default, ⛩️📰 书社 installs files to the same location in `DESTDIR`
394 as they were placed in their `SRCDIR`.
395 This behaviour can be customized by setting the `@书社:destination`
396 attribute on the root element, whose value can give a different path.
397 This attribute is read after parsing, but before transformation (where
398 it is silently dropped).
399
400 ## Transforms
401
402 Transforms are used to convert X·M·L files into their final output,
403 after all necessary parsing and embedding has taken place.
404 ⛩️📰 书社 comes with some transforms; namely :⁠—
405
406 - **`transforms/asset.xslt`:**
407 Converts `<html:object>` elements which correspond to recognized
408 media types into the appropriate H·T·M·L elements, and deletes
409 `<html:style>` elements from the body of the document and moves
410 them to the head.
411
412 - **`transforms/metadata.xslt`:**
413 Provides basic `<html:head>` metadata.
414 This metadata is generated from `<html:meta>` elements with one of
415 the following `@itemprop` attributes :⁠—
416
417 - **`urn:fdc:ladys.computer:20231231:Shu1She4:title`:**
418 Provides the title of the page.
419
420 ⛩️📰 书社 automatically encapsulates H·T·M·L embeds so that their
421 metadata does not propogate up to the embedding document.
422 To undo this behaviour, remove the `@itemscope` and `@itemtype`
423 attributes from the embed during the transformation phase.
424
425 The following are recommendations on effective creation of
426 transforms :⁠—
427
428 - Make template matchers as specific as possible.
429 It is likely an error if two transforms have templates which match
430 the same element (unless the templates have different priority).
431
432 - Namespace templates (with `@name` or `@mode`) whenever possible.
433
434 - Set `@exclude-result-prefixes` on the root `xslt:transform` element
435 to reduce the number of declared namespaces in the final result.
436
437 ## Global Params
438
439 The following params are made available globally in parsers and
440 transforms :⁠—
441
442 - **`BUILDTIME`:**
443 The current time.
444
445 - **`CKSUM`:**
446 The checksum of the source file (⅌ `cksum`).
447
448 - **`IDENTIFIER`:**
449 The ⛩️📰 书社 identifier of the source file (a u·r·i beginning with
450 `about:shushe`).
451
452 - **`SRCREV`:**
453 The value of the `SRCREV` variable (if present).
454
455 - **`SRCTIME`:**
456 The time at which the source file was last modified.
457
458 - **`THISREV`:**
459 The value of the `THISREV` variable (if present).
460
461 The following params are only available in transforms :⁠—
462
463 - **`CATALOG`:**
464 The path of the catalog file (within `BUILDDIR`).
465
466 - **`PATH`:**
467 The path of the output file (within `DESTDIR`).
468
469 ## Output Wrapping
470
471 ⛩️📰 书社 will wrap the final output of the transforms in appropriate
472 `<html:html>` and `<html:body>` elements, so it is not necessary for
473 transforms to do this explicitly.
474 After performing the initial transform, ⛩️📰 书社 will match the root
475 node of the result in the following modes to fill in areas of the
476 wrapper :⁠—
477
478 - **`书社:header`:**
479 The result of matching in this mode is prepended into the
480 `<html:body>` of the output (before the transformation result).
481
482 - **`书社:footer`:**
483 The result of matching in this mode is appended into the
484 `<html:body>` of the output (after the transformation result).
485
486 - **`书社:metadata`:**
487 The result of matching in this mode is inserted into the
488 `<html:head>` of the output.
489
490 In addition to being called with the transform result, each of these
491 modes will additionally be called with a `<xslt:include>` element
492 corresponding to each transform.
493 If a transform has a `<书社:id>` top‐level element whose value is an
494 i·r·i, its `<xslt:include>` element will have a corresponding
495 `@书社:id` attribute.
496 This mechanism can be used to allow transforms to insert content
497 without matching any elements in the result; for example, the
498 following transform adds a link to a stylesheet to the `<html:head>`
499 of every page :⁠—
500
501 ```xml
502 <?xml version="1.0"?>
503 <transform
504 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
505 xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
506 xmlns:xslt="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
507 xmlns:书社="urn:fdc:ladys.computer:20231231:Shu1She4"
508 exclude-result-prefixes="书社"
509 version="1.0"
510 >
511 <书社:id>example:add-stylesheet-links.xslt</书社:id>
512 <template match="xslt:include[@书社:id='example:add-stylesheet-links.xslt']" mode="书社:metadata">
513 <html:link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/style.css"/>
514 </template>
515 </transform>
516 ```
517
518 Output wrapping can be entirely disabled by adding a
519 `@书社:disable-output-wrapping` attribute to the top‐level element in
520 the result tree.
521 This attribute will also prevent wrapping non‐H·T·M·L embeds with an
522 `<html:div>`.
523
524 ## Applying Attributes
525
526 The `<书社:apply-attributes>` element will apply any attributes on the
527 element to the element(s) it wraps.
528 It is especially useful in combination with embeds.
529
530 The `<书社:apply-attributes-to-root>` element will apply any attributes
531 on the element to the root node of the final transformation result.
532 It is especially useful in combination with output wrapping.
533
534 In both cases, attributes from various sources are combined with
535 white·space between them.
536 Attribute application takes place after all ordinary transforms have
537 completed.
538
539 Both elements ignore attributes in the `xml:` namespace, except for
540 `@xml:lang`, which ignores all but the first definition (including
541 any already present on the root element).
542 On H·T·M·L and S·V·G elements, `@lang` has the same behaviour as
543 `@xml:lang`.
544
545 ## License
546
547 Source files are licensed under the terms of the <cite>Mozilla Public
548 License, version 2.0</cite>.
549 For more information, see [LICENSE](./LICENSE).
550
551 [draft-phillips-record-jar-01]: <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-phillips-record-jar-01>
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