Hi Shaun,

It works for me so far. I needed to change the http in the creativecommons
lines to https.

Mike


On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 2:01 PM Shaun McCance <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Over the last couple weekends, I've been working on converting yelp-
> check to Python. I've basically hit feature parity (with caveats), and
> it's now in git. It hasn't yet replaced yelp-check, but you can test
> it, and I'd appreciate if you did.
>
> First, grab from git:
>
>   git clone [email protected]:GNOME/yelp-tools.git
>
> Then, anywhere you'd normally call yelp-check, instead call python3
> with the path to tools/yelp-check.py. For example:
>
>   python3 yelp-tools/tools/yelp-check.py links \
>     gnome-user-docs/gnome-help/C
>
> There are two things that are different:
>
> 1. There's no support for DocBook's entityref attributes, because I
> didn't see an API in lxml to resolve unparsed entity references, and
> honestly I don't think I've ever seen anyone use entityref in my 20 or
> so years of working with the format.
>
> 2. It's considerably more strict about orphans in Mallard sites. This
> probably doesn't affect anybody but me, and the new behavior is
> arguably more correct.
>
> If you've read this far, here's some reasoning behind this change. When
> I first wrote yelp-tools, and gnome-doc-utils before that, I tried
> really really hard to keep its dependencies super low to eliminate
> barriers to adoption. Building GNOME has a different affair back then.
> So I wrote in sh and awk, and avoided GNUisms whenever they were
> pointed out to me. I learned *a lot*.
>
> Now we have a build system written in Python. Python is everywhere.
> Nobody is balking at a tool because it uses Python. Why am I still
> writing in sh and awk?
>
> But also, it's only worth converting if there are advantages going
> forward. So here they are:
>
> * The new Python script is a bajillion times faster.
>
> * I can make Ducktype just work without an extra conversion step.
>
> * I intend to add a config file parser now, and then:
>
> * We'll be able to specify default options for commands.
>
> * We'll be able to run multiple checks with a single command.
>
> * We'll be able to generate reports, which can be run on CI.
>
> * We'll be able to do custom commands, replacing the kind of stuff we
> have now in gnome-help.sct.
>
> The last point is worth talking about more. Right now, gnome-help.sct
> has Schematron rules like this one:
>
>   <rule context="mal:page/mal:info">
>    <assert test="normalize-space(mal:desc) != ''"
>     >Must have non-empty desc</assert>
>   </rule>
>
> Not bad, pretty straight-forward. Then you run an xmllint command that
> you can find in a comment at the top of the file. It works.
>
> My plan is that a yelp-check.cfg file can contain this:
>
>   [desc-non-empty]
>   Select = /mal:page/mal:info
>   Assert = normalize-space(mal:desc) != ''
>   Message = Must have non-empty desc
>
> And then you could run:
>
>   yelp-check desc-non-empty
>
> Anyway, long email over. Please test the new Python script.
>
> Thanks,
> Shaun
>
>
>
>
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