Hi Wesley: First of all welcome (but I think I have already said that in the conference call before) and I'm glad that you're getting us involved in your summer project.
Anyways, I have been meaning to contact you regarding your work. About your problems with parsing the HTML - how about just use a text web browser? I guess that may not really help you with automatic installs, but at least it allows a user to remotely ssh into the headnode and configure some stuff. Some commonly good text web browsers are w3m, lynx, etc. Just some suggestions. Cheers, Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Wesley Bland > Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 6:03 > To: oscar-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Oscar-devel] Configurator > > As you may have seen this summer I'm working on making a CLI > for the OSCAR > Installer. As I have moved into the configurator step (Step > 2), I have run > into a major problem. HTML is very difficult to parse into a > command line > format. Essentially what I have to do is write my own HTML > browser to print > the HTML and get responses from the users when there is an > INPUT tag. > Already this is a huge pain, but it gets worse as I start to > try to parse the > INPUT tags to create prompts. > > > For example, logically, to use a radio button, a label is > necessary. However, > in HTML there is no way to connect a label to a button > because the label > could be to the left, right, above, or below the button. > Other problems > arise when trying to connect things like checkboxes, which > have no way to be > tied together. > > > What I ask from you guys is to consider the possibility of > converting the > Configurator to use XML input files instead of HTML, i.e., > configurator.xml > instead of configurator.html. > > > Using XML would make solving all these problems much easier > and allow me to > get this CLI going by the end of the summer. For the moment, > the HTML (used > by GUI) and XML (used by CLI) versions could coexist until a > better solution > (converting the GUI to XML, etc.) is realized. > > > I am told that these configurator files do not change very > often, and it would > not be a huge pain to maintain an HTML and XML version for a > while especially > since they are not very complex pages. > > > Please send me any input you have and keep an eye on the wiki > page to keep up > with progress on the CLI. > > Thanks, > Wesley > > -- > Wesley Bland > 576-5508 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-devel mailing list > Oscar-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel > _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list Oscar-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
