Re: alpha release of 'unpluck' library for accessing Plucker documents in C

2002-05-20 Thread Bill Janssen
> And when looking at the parser code I saw that we still use a mix > of tabs and spaces. To make it really messy the tab setting seems > to be 8 (and to add to this mess this isn't true for all tabs:), > while the used indentation in the file is 4 ;-) Since no one else > seems interested in fixin

Re: alpha release of 'unpluck' library for accessing Plucker documents in C

2002-05-20 Thread Bill Janssen
> Another thing I have found is that the explode program gets confused > when you have a link in a long document that points to a part that is > in a separate record because of the 32k split. For such links it will > include a link in the document that points to a file that doesn't > exists since

Re: alpha release of 'unpluck' library for accessing Plucker documents in C

2002-05-20 Thread Bill Janssen
> -The variable > void *private; > may cause problems if you want to drop this wholesale into a C++ application, as >"private" is a > keyword. Changing all instance of the "private" like "prvate" allowed a C++ >compiler to go > ahead and didn't seem to cause a noticable bad effect.

Re: alpha release of 'unpluck' library for accessing Plucker documents in C

2002-05-18 Thread Michael Nordström
On Sat, May 18, 2002, Robert O'Connor wrote: > -The outputted HTML doesn't seem to have an open/close HTML tag > around the BODY tags. These may be the cause of the lynx/parser > choking while some browsers still show it. The problem was caused by the comments in the file. After removing them it

Re: alpha release of 'unpluck' library for accessing Plucker documents in C

2002-05-18 Thread Michael Nordström
On Fri, May 17, 2002, David A. Desrosiers wrote: > Doesn't decode.py do this already? Actually, Decode.py (alias plucker-dump) will dump the records from a Plucker document in the cache dir. plucker-decode (alias PluckerDocs.py) will allow you to get info about a record. Confused by the n

Re: alpha release of 'unpluck' library for accessing Plucker documents in C

2002-05-18 Thread Robert O'Connor
I've took it for some test runs. Very impressive stuff! Two small mentions that may be of benefit: > Works quite well. The generated HTML code seems to be non-Plucker > compatible, though ;-) That is, the parser won't parse it into a > Plucker document. Neither can I read the created files in l

Re: alpha release of 'unpluck' library for accessing Plucker documents in C

2002-05-18 Thread Michael Nordström
On Fri, May 17, 2002, Bill Janssen wrote: > which is just an API to retrieve information from a Plucker document. Works quite well. The generated HTML code seems to be non-Plucker compatible, though ;-) That is, the parser won't parse it into a Plucker document. Neither can I read the created f

Re: alpha release of 'unpluck' library for accessing Plucker documents in C

2002-05-18 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 17 May 2002 at 17:00, Bill Janssen wrote: > I've put out a tar file, > ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/transient/janssen/unpluck.tgz, which contains > code for the 'unpluck' library, which is just an API to retrieve > information from a Plucker document. Also included is a sample > program, explode,

alpha release of 'unpluck' library for accessing Plucker documents in C

2002-05-17 Thread Bill Janssen
I've put out a tar file, ftp://ftp.parc.xerox.com/transient/janssen/unpluck.tgz, which contains code for the 'unpluck' library, which is just an API to retrieve information from a Plucker document. Also included is a sample program, explode, which will "explode" a Plucker document into a director