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# ⛩️📰 书社
A make·file for X·M·L.
@@ -69,9 +73,13 @@ Compilation involves the following steps :—
5. ⛩️📰 书社 uses the dependency tree to establish prerequisites for
each output file.
-6. ⛩️📰 书社 compiles each output file to `build/public`.
+6. ⛩️📰 书社 compiles each output file to `build/result`.
-7. ⛩️📰 书社 copies the output files to `public`.
+7. ⛩️📰 书社 symlinks most output files from `build/result` to
+ `build/public`, but it does some additional processing instead on
+ those which indicate a non‐X·M·L desired final output form.
+
+8. ⛩️📰 书社 copies the final resulting files to `public`.
You can use `make list` to list each identified source file or include
alongside its computed type and dependencies.
@@ -102,6 +110,7 @@ In every case, you may supply your own implementation by overriding the
- `awk`
- `cat`
+- `cksum`
- `cp`
- `date`
- `echo`
@@ -121,6 +130,7 @@ In every case, you may supply your own implementation by overriding the
- `touch`
- `tr` (requires support for `-d`)
- `uuencode` (requires support for `-m` and `-r`)
+- `uudecode` (requires support for `-m` and `-r`)
- `xargs` (requires support for `-0`)
- `xmlcatalog` (provided by `libxml2`)
- `xmllint` (provided by `libxml2`)
@@ -175,9 +185,10 @@ The following additional variables can be used to control the behaviour
- **`FINDRULES`:**
Rules to use with `find` when searching for source files.
- The default ignores files that start with a period or hyphen‐minus
- and those which contain a hash, buck, percent, asterisk, colon,
- semi, eroteme, bracket, backslash, or pipe.
+ The default ignores files that start with a period or hyphen‐minus,
+ those which end with a cloparen, and those which contain a hash,
+ buck, percent, asterisk, colon, semi, eroteme, bracket, backslash,
+ or pipe.
- **`EXTRAFINDRULES`:**
The value of this variable is appended to `FINDRULES` by default, to
@@ -212,6 +223,14 @@ The following additional variables can be used to control the behaviour
A white·space‐separated list of media types to consider X·M·L
(default: `application/xml text/xml`).
+- **`THISREV`:**
+ The current version of ⛩️📰 书社 (default: derived from the current
+ git tag/branch/commit).
+
+- **`SRCREV`:**
+ The current version of the source files (default: derived from the
+ current git tag/branch/commit).
+
- **`VERBOSE`:**
If this variable has a value, every recipe instruction will be
printed when it runs (default: empty).
@@ -244,9 +263,12 @@ Source files whose media type does not have an associated X·S·L·T
contain Ascii white·space, colons (`:`), semis (`;`), pipes (`|`),
bucks (`$`), percents (`%`), hashes (`#`), asterisks (`*`), brackets
(`[` or `]`), erotemes (`?`), backslashes (`\`), or control
- characters, and must not begin with a hyphen‐minus (`-`).**
+ characters, must not begin with a hyphen‐minus (`-`), and must not
+ end with a cloparen (`)`).**
The former characters have the potential to conflict with make syntax,
- and a leading hyphen‐minus is confusable for a command‐line argument.
+ a leading hyphen‐minus is confusable for a command‐line argument, and
+ a trailing cloparen [activates a bug in G·N·U Make
+ 3.81](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17148468/capturing-filenames-including-parentheses-with-gnu-makes-wildcard-function#comment24825307_17148894).
## Parsers
@@ -256,16 +278,15 @@ Parsers are used to convert plaintext files into X·M·L trees, as well
⛩️📰 书社 comes with some parsers; namely :—
- **`parsers/plain.xslt`:**
- Wraps `text/plain` contents in a `` element.
+ Wraps `text/plain` contents in a `` element.
- **`parsers/record-jar.xslt`:**
- Converts `text/record-jar` contents into a
- `` of `` elements (one for
- each record).
+ Converts `text/record-jar` contents into a `` of
+ `` elements (one for each record).
- **`parsers/tsv.xslt`:**
- Converts `text/tab-separated-values` contents into an
- `` element.
+ Converts `text/tab-separated-values` contents into an ``
+ element.
New ⛩️📰 书社 parsers which target plaintext formats should have an
`` element with no `@name` or `@mode` and whose
@@ -331,6 +352,26 @@ It is **strongly recommended** that auxillary templates in parsers be
namespaced (by `@name` or `@mode`) whenever possible, to avoid
conflicts between parsers.
+### Attributes added during parsing
+
+⛩️📰 书社 will add a few attributes to the output of the parsing step,
+ namely :—
+
+- A `@书社:cksum` attribute on toplevel result elements, giving the
+ `cksum` checksum of the corresponding source file.
+
+- For the elements which result from parsing plaintext ``
+ elements :—
+
+ - A `@书社:parsed-by` attribute, giving a space‐separated list of
+ parsers which parsed the node.
+ (Generally, this will be a list of one, but it is possible for the
+ result of a parse to be another plaintext node, which may be
+ parsed by a different parser.)
+
+ - A `@书社:media-type` attribute, giving the identified media type of
+ the plaintext node.
+
## Embedding
Documents can be embedded in other documents using a `<书社:link>`
@@ -347,6 +388,8 @@ Embeds are replaced with the parsed contents of a file, unless the file
is an asset, in which case an `` element is produced
instead (with the contents of the asset file provided as a base64
`data:` u·r·i).
+Embed replacements will be given a `@书社:identifier` attribute whose
+ value will match the `@xlink:href` of the embed.
Embedding takes place after parsing but before transformation, so
parsers are able to generate their own embeds.
@@ -369,14 +412,6 @@ Transforms are used to convert X·M·L files into their final output,
after all necessary parsing and embedding has taken place.
⛩️📰 书社 comes with some transforms; namely :—
-- **`transforms/attributes.xslt`:**
- Applies transforms to the children of any `<书社:apply-attributes>`
- elements, and then applies the attributes of the
- `<书社:apply-attributes>` to each result child, replacing the
- element with the result.
- This is useful in combination with image embeds to apply alt‐text to
- the resulting ``.
-
- **`transforms/asset.xslt`:**
Converts `` elements which correspond to recognized
media types into the appropriate H·T·M·L elements, and deletes
@@ -391,8 +426,8 @@ Transforms are used to convert X·M·L files into their final output,
- **`urn:fdc:ladys.computer:20231231:Shu1She4:title`:**
Provides the title of the page.
- ⛩️📰 书社 automatically encapsulates embeds so that their metadata
- does not propogate up to the embedding document.
+ ⛩️📰 书社 automatically encapsulates H·T·M·L embeds so that their
+ metadata does not propogate up to the embedding document.
To undo this behaviour, remove the `@itemscope` and `@itemtype`
attributes from the embed during the transformation phase.
@@ -416,16 +451,21 @@ The following params are made available globally in parsers and
- **`BUILDTIME`:**
The current time.
+- **`CKSUM`:**
+ The checksum of the source file (⅌ `cksum`).
+
+- **`IDENTIFIER`:**
+ The ⛩️📰 书社 identifier of the source file (a u·r·i beginning with
+ `about:shushe`).
+
- **`SRCREV`:**
- The tag or hash of the current commit in the working directory (if
- `GIT` is defined and `./.git` exists).
+ The value of the `SRCREV` variable (if present).
- **`SRCTIME`:**
The time at which the source file was last modified.
-- **`VERSION`:**
- The tag or hash of the current commit in `THISDIR` (if `GIT` is
- defined and `$(THISDIR)/.git` exists).
+- **`THISREV`:**
+ The value of the `THISREV` variable (if present).
The following params are only available in transforms :—
@@ -487,11 +527,52 @@ This mechanism can be used to allow transforms to insert content
Output wrapping can be entirely disabled by adding a
`@书社:disable-output-wrapping` attribute to the top‐level element in
the result tree.
+It will not be performed on outputs whose root elements are
+ `<书社:raw-text>` or `<书社:base64-binary>` (described below).
+
+## Applying Attributes
+
+The `<书社:apply-attributes>` element will apply any attributes on the
+ element to the element(s) it wraps.
+It is especially useful in combination with embeds.
+
+The `<书社:apply-attributes-to-root>` element will apply any attributes
+ on the element to the root node of the final transformation result.
+It is especially useful in combination with output wrapping.
+
+In both cases, attributes from various sources are combined with
+ white·space between them.
+Attribute application takes place after all ordinary transforms have
+ completed.
+
+Both elements ignore attributes in the `xml:` namespace, except for
+ `@xml:lang`, which ignores all but the first definition (including
+ any already present on the root element).
+On H·T·M·L and S·V·G elements, `@lang` has the same behaviour as
+ `@xml:lang`.
+
+## Other Kinds of Output
+
+There are a few special elements in the `书社:` namespace which, if
+ they appear as the toplevel element in a transformation result, cause
+ ⛩️📰 书社 to produce something other than an X·M·L file.
+They are :—
+
+- **`<书社:raw-text>`:**
+ A plaintext (U·T·F‐8) file will be produced from the text nodes in
+ the transformation result.
+
+- **`<书社:base64-binary>`:**
+ The text nodes in the transformation result will, after removing all
+ Ascii whitespace, be treated as a Base·64 string, which is then
+ decoded.
## License
-Source files are licensed under the terms of the Mozilla Public
- License, version 2.0.
-For more information, see [LICENSE](./LICENSE).
+This repository conforms to [REUSE][].
+
+Most source files are licensed under the terms of the Mozilla
+ Public License, version 2.0.
+[REUSE]:
[draft-phillips-record-jar-01]: