I'd like to achieve the following and I'm looking for ideas. I have a document and I want to represent/transform this content in/to a nice SAPUI5 framework. My idea is the following: a split app with having the paragraph titles in the master view (plus a search function on top) and the respective content in the detail view.
I'd like to know from you if
a) you might want to share your ideas and hints on alternatives.
b) this can be achieved within one single file (i.e. all the code for the split app and document content in one html) and maybe using pure html code (xml also feasible) - against the background of easily handing a large amount of text available in html.
c) if you happen to have/know a reusable template.
Thanks in advance!
An interesting question. I went through a similar exercise once, re-presenting my site with UI5.
To your questions:
(a) I would think that the approach you suggest is a good one
(b) You can indeed include all the app in a single file, I do that often by using script templates, even with XML Views. You can see some examples in my sapui5bin repository, in particular in the SinglePageExamples folder. Have a look at this html file for example: https://github.com/qmacro/sapui5bin/blob/master/SinglePageExamples/SAP-Inside-Track-Sheffield-2014/end.html
What I would suggest is, rather than intermingle the document content and the app & view definitions, maintain the content of your document separately, for example, in XML or JSON, and use a client side model to load it in and bind the parts to the right places.
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I am trying to automate a workflow for automatically creating HTML newsletters based on information stored in a spreadsheet.
Currently, I am using a newsletter drag and drop tool, in which several pre-programmed blocks are available (e.g. full column block, 2 column block etc). When creating a newsletter, I drag and drop a block and fill in my content (e.g. uploading an image, inserting a url). This is all well and good, however, since I have to create the same newsletter in 10 different languages, this process is quiet time consuming and prone to human error. While all newsletters are the same in terms of layout, the images and urls differ.
To solve this issue, I would like to get rid of the drag and drop process, and instead automate the workflow in some other way.
One idea that I have already tried, but that doesn't seem like the perfect option to me, is to dynamically create the needed HTMLs in Excel. Basically, the idea is to take the existing block template structure, and put it into Excel with some formulas.
I could then copy and paste the links to the images (in a simple format, such as EN1.jpg, ES1.jpg, etc.), as well as to urls (url.com, url.es).
This is some example block:
<img alt="" align="center" width="700" style="max-width:700px;" class="resetWidth" border="0" src="IMAGE" />
My final expected result is something like this:
I define the layout in a very quick manner (e.g. writing fullcolumn, half column, fullcolumn). The corresponding code is taken from the template. I then provide the attributes (image url, link url) in the form of a list or so. The end result should then be 10 html files that I simply have to upload to the newsletter software.
I would appreciate it very much if anyone had any ideas on this.
Another option for translating the page is to do something like this https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_google_translate.asp
it adds a selection for languages to translate into.
As for automating the images, you could set up folders for each langauge and reuse the name of images based on where you want them so they would be placed in the correct location.
All you'll have to do it replace the images with the same file names and swap the default language on the Google Translator.
So something like this that the html will stay the same with regards to the image names
For the link variables you may be able to write some JS or another language to take advantage of the
<html lang="">
and based on which lang is set, insert a set of links to the file.
In Objective C to build a Mac OSX (Cocoa) application, I'm using the native Webkit widget to display local files with the file:// URL, pulling from this folder:
MyApp.app/Contents/Resources/lang/en/html
This is all well and good until I start to need a German version. That means I have to copy en/html as de/html, then have someone replace the wording in the HTML (and some in the Javascript (like with modal dialogs)) with German phrasing. That's quite a lot of work!
Okay, that might seem doable until this creates a headache where I have to constantly maintain multiple versions of the html folder for each of the languages I need to support.
Then the thought came to me...
Why not just replace the phrasing with template tags like %CONTINUE%
and then, before the page is rendered, intercept it and swap it out
with strings pulled from a language plist file?
Through some API with this widget, is it possible to intercept HTML before it is rendered and replace text?
If it is possible, would it be noticeably slow such that it wouldn't be worth it?
Or, do you recommend I do a strategy where I build a generator that I keep on my workstation which builds each of the HTML folders for me from a main template, and then I deploy those already completed with my setup application once I determine the user's language from the setup application?
Through a lot of experimentation, I found an ugly way to do templating. Like I said, it's not desirable and has some side effects:
You'll see a flash on the first window load. On first load of the application window that has the WebKit widget, you'll want to hide the window until the second time the page content is displayed. I guess you'll have to use a property for that.
When you navigate, each page loads twice. It's almost not noticeable, but not good enough for good development.
I found an odd quirk with Bootstrap CSS where it made my table grid rows very large and didn't apply CSS properly for some strange reason. I might be able to tweak the CSS to fix that.
Unfortunately, I found no other event I could intercept on this except didFinishLoadForFrame. However, by then, the page has already downloaded and rendered at least once for a microsecond. It would be great to intercept some event before then, where I have the full HTML, and do the swap there before display. I didn't find such an event. However, if someone finds such an event -- that would probably make this a great templating solution.
- (void)webView:(WebView *)sender didFinishLoadForFrame:(WebFrame *)frame
{
DOMHTMLElement * htmlNode =
(DOMHTMLElement *) [[[frame DOMDocument] getElementsByTagName: #"html"] item: 0];
NSString *s = [htmlNode outerHTML];
if ([s containsString:#"<!-- processed -->"]) {
return;
}
NSURL *oBaseURL = [[[frame dataSource] request] URL];
s = [s stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#"%EXAMPLE%" withString:#"ZZZ"];
s = [s stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#"</head>" withString:#"<!-- processed -->\n</head>"];
[frame loadHTMLString:s baseURL:oBaseURL];
}
The above will look at HTML that contains %EXAMPLE% and replace it with ZZZ.
In the end, I realized that this is inefficient because of page flash, and, on long bits of text that need a lot of replacing, may have some quite noticeable delay. The better way is to create a compile time generator. This would be to make one HTML folder with %PARAMETERIZED_TAGS% inside instead of English text. Then, create a "Run Script" in your "Build Phase" that runs some program/script you create in whatever language you want that generates each HTML folder from all the available lang-XX.plist files you have in a directory, where XX is a language code like 'en', 'de', etc. It reads the HTML file, finds the parameterized tag match in the lang-XX.plist file, and replaces that text with the text for that language. That way, after compilation, you have several HTML folders for each language, already using your translated strings. This is efficient because then it allows you to have one single HTML folder where you handle your code, and don't have to do the extremely tedious process of creating each HTML folder in each language, nor have to maintain that mess. The compile time generator would do that for you. However -- you'll have to build that compile time generator.
I have a HTML page that displays a SVG element (a Business process diagram) using some javascript libraries. A String variable, say 'str' needs to be given to html function.
After reading this, I plan to use widgets. So far I understand that I need to copy all scripts to Widgets: Test. For creating the hook, I write
{{#widget:Test|str=UserTask_1}}
The problem is that UserTask_1 is a variable as well. It is different each time.
Can someone help how can I add this dynamic information to my hook? This hook is a hyperlink from a previous page. In the previous page, I send the str=UserTask_1 through JavaWiki Bot.
PS: I have come-across SMW for first time. Please excuse if my language is not very technical at the moment.
Thanks.
I just want to automate a web application, where that application parses the HTML page and pulls all the HTML Tags inner text based on some condition like if we have a tag called Span Example has given whose class="spanclass_1"
This is span tag...
which has particular class id. so that app parses and pulls that span into it.
And here the main pain area is, I should not use the developer code to automate that same parsing the HTML.
I want to automate that parsing done correctly, simply by using the parsed data which is shown in UI.
Any help, would be great.
Appreciating your time reading this.
(Note span tag is not shown)
Thanks buddies.
not enough details.
is this html page just a file in local filesystem on it is internet webpage?
do u have access to pages? can u modify it ? if answer yes, that just add javascript to page which will extract data and post to server.
if answer not, than it depends on language u use to programm.
Find good framework to parse html. load page parse it and extract data. Several situation can be there.
Worse scenario - page generated on client side using js.
Best scenario - page is in xhtml mode( u are lucky. any xml parser will help to build dom and extract data)
So so - page is simple html format (try several html parser to find most suitable for u)
I know there is a list of similar questions but all handle pages without user interaction (static even though some js may be there).
Let's say we've a page the user can interact (e.g. svg than changes, or html tables with drilldown - content changes). Those interactions will change the page. Same happens in stackoverflow when entering the question...
The idea is adding a button, "convert to pdf" taking the state of the html and sending to the user back a pdf version (we've a Java server).
Using the print of the browser is not the answer I'm looking for :-).
Is this a stick in the moon ?
You would have to store the parameters that generate the HTML view (i.e. what the user clicks on, what selections they make, etc). If you can have a list of parameters that generate the HTML view, you can have a method which accepts the list of parameters (JSON post?), generates the HTML view and passes it to your PDF generating routine. I'm not too familiar with Java libraries for this purpose, but PHP has TCPDF can take html output to basically generate a PDF for you. Certainly, there are Java libraries which will allow you to do the same thing, or you can use the parameters to get a list of rows/arrays which can be iterated over and output using the PDF library of your choice.
Both iTextPDF and Aspose.PDF would allow you to do that (I've seen them used in two different projects), but there is no magic and you will have to do some work.
The steps are roughly:
Get (as a string) the part of the document which you want to print with jQuery or innerHTML
Call a service on the server side to convert this to PDF
[Serverside] Use a whitlist - based tool to clean up the hmtl (unless you want to be hacked). JSoup is great for that.
[Serverside] Use IText or Aspose API to create the PDF from the HTML (this is not trivial, you will have to read the doc)
Download the document
I'd also recommend DocRaptor, an HTML to PDF API built by my company, Expected Behavior.
DocRaptor uses Prince XML to generate PDFs, and thus produces higher quality results than similar products.
Adding PDF generation to your own web application using our service is as simple as making an HTTP POST request to our server.
Here's a link to DocRaptor's home page:
DocRaptor
And a link to our API documentation:
DocRaptor API documentation