[daisy] Automatic HTMLHelp Publishing

[Robert Kindl]

Thanks - these classes was very helpfull.
I made some customizations to them (

Now I have problem with download of generated HTMLHelp .chm file

When I click on following URL i will get content of this binary file as text
which is obviosly nonsense.
http://server:8888/books/sandbox_book--20070415-233831/publications/htmlhelp/output/book.chm

I have no idea how to make "cocoon" to serve this file as mime type
application/mshelp (or something else appropriate).

Thanks for help

Rob

PS: I will send all my achievments to you when I will be feeling that it's
nearing finish.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruno Dumon" <bruno at outerthought.org>
To: "Daisy: open source CMS - general mailinglist"
<daisy at lists.cocoondev.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: [daisy] Automatic HTMLHelp Publishing


> On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 11:44 +0200, Robert Kindl wrote:
> > I'm currently solving following problem:
> > a) I want to create/write content in daisy and prepare book
> > b) compile book to HTMLHelp (in adition to producting HTML and PDF)
> > c) On daily schedule (or any time during build-time of other things in
our
> > integration process) produce book with all this outputs.
> > d) Automatically bundle result in our installation scripts
> >
> > Now my comments:
> > ad b) I already realized custom book PublicationType which is able to
> > produce .hhp .hhc and .hhk files
> > But I'm missing posibility to compile and release .chm during this
process:
> >
> > Suggested solution b1:
> >     <custom class="ExecuteCommandTask"
> >             program="C:\Program Files\HTML Help Workshop\hhc.exe"
> >             commandline="output\book.hhp"
> >             workingdir="output"
> >             errorlevel="1" <!--HHC returns errorlevel=1 on success -->
> >             />
> >     <custom class="ExecuteCommandTask"
> >             program="copy"
> >             commandline="/b book.chm D:\LatestBook"
> >             workingdir="output"
> >             errorlevel="0"
> >             />
> >
> > Suggested solution b2:
> >    <zip>
> >     <custom class="ExecuteCommandTask"
> >             program="copy"
> >             commandline="/b *.zip D:\LatestBook"
> >             workingdir="output"
> >             errorlevel="0"
> >             />
> >
> > Suggested solution b3:
> >    <zip>
> >     <copyResource from="currentpublicationdir:/output/*.zip"
> > to="D:\LatestBook" />
> >
> > In solutions b2 and b3 I will run HTMLHelp compiler as part of my
> > integration process - it's not problem.
> >
> > Can anyone help me with writing this custom ExecuteCommandTask?
> > I'm not able to do this personally as I'm not Java programmer.
> > I will share my .xsl for HTMLHelp publication in exchange ;-)
>
> I've attached a first attempt at this.
>
> Throw the jar in DAISY_HOME/daisywiki/webapp/WEB-INF/lib
>
> and use like this:
>
>     <custom
class="org.outerj.daisy.books.publisher.impl.publicationprocess.ExecuteComma
ndTask"
>             program="/bin/ls" workingDir="/home/bruno/tmp" exitValue="0">
>       <args xmlns="">
>         <arg>-l</arg>
>         <arg>-a</arg>
>       </args>
>     </custom>
>
> workingDir, exitValue and args are optional. I've only tested it on
> linux. The output of the command is included in the publication log.
>
> Please let me know if it works, we could then look into including it
> with the default tasks.
>
> >
> > ad c) There should be some posibility (API) to trigger book publication
> > externally.
> >
> > Suggested solution:
> >
> > Currently book publication start with following URL:
> >
http://server:8888/books/createBookInstance?bookDefinitionDocumentId=112-EX&bookDefinitionBranchId=1&bookDefinitionLanguageId=2
> >
> > I suggest adding one parameter useDefaultSettings=true
> >
http://server:8888/books/createBookInstance?bookDefinitionDocumentId=112-EX&bookDefinitionBranchId=1&bookDefinitionLanguageId=2&useDefaultSettings=true
> > which will simply start publication right now (without asking for any
> > parameters)
> >
> > Now it would be simple to use WGET.exe to trigger book publication at
any
> > time
>
> Ideally we'd have a full HTTP+XML API to access the books functionality.
>
> Your suggestion might serve as a simple solution too, though I can't
> look into that now.
>
> -- 
> Bruno Dumon                             http://outerthought.org/
> Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center
> bruno at outerthought.org                          bruno at apache.org
>


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