I need to
convert my Sandcastle Help File
Builder (SHFB) output that is a Web
site (HTML) to Media wiki format
Find a way to transfer/include the
converted pages directly into the
MediaWiki we have set up.
Any ideas? we have over 1000 pages of HTML files inthe Website (output of SHFB).
I thought of using a html2wiki converter ..I could think of looking around for a script to convert those 1000 pages into wiki format... that could take care of (1).
But I would still be left with the block in the last bit of the pipeline - how to feed converted pages directly into the Wiki?
Take a look at Help Server. It allows to publish .CHM / .HxS produced by any tool (including Sandcastle) on the web and provides URL-based integration API.
We use MediaWiki as well. A set of templates for it allows us to create links to class reference shared by Help Server. Some examples of such links can be found right on that page.
Note that DataObjects.Net Help web site is running on Help Server 2.X, but the newest one is 3.X (example web site is here).
I did some work with ingesting existing material from several sites into a comprehensive Wiki. It did not involve Sandcastle, but if you're dealing with HTML it shouldn't matter much. html2wiki extensions are out there, and from what I have read they can solve a lot of problems. I needed a little more control over each node in the DOM, so i used Simple HTML DOM Parser. It's in PHP and was easily dropped into Mediawiki's includes.
For creating the new pages, I ended up writing a small script that uses Mediawiki's Article class, specifically the doEdit function. this allows you to create new articles programatically, without user interaction. Of course, you'd want to be careful with this... The last thing you need is to create 1000 pages that are no good and have to be deleted. But perhaps this will help get you going.
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I have a 2sxc app (using C# Razor template) that shows a listing and details view. I have 10 items. Each item has a friendly URL. Looks something like this:
domain.com/landing-page/details/the-benefits-of-jargon
domain.com/landing-page/details/code-samples
domain.com/landing-page/details/highlights-and-use-cases
etc…
Is there a way that I can make these URLs appear in the DNN Sitemap.aspx ? (as it stands, the only page that appears is “landing-page” because that’s the only real DNN page)
There are actually two ways. Dnn has some way you can write code to extend the page-structure provider. IMHO this is super difficult to do, but probably the official architected way.
Our way is much simpler ;)
Create a WebAPI which creates a standalone sitemap for your needs. You could assemble some strings, but we recommend to use the C# Xml object just to be sure. You can find some brand-new example on the RSS feed of the latest Blog5 app.
Register this endpoint as another sitemap on Google (yes, you can do that :)
That's how we do it - and we've been very successful with it creating landing-page systems that generate hundreds, sometimes thousands of unique landing pages.
I have a webpage, actually a blog, posted with Github Pages. It's a simple HTML&CSS page. Normally, I create new files with my new posts in them and upload these files to my repository. However, I want to create an admin panel. Especially in order to post easily, and manage my blog (like adding tags, comments etc). I don't know where to start or what to use. I know how to program in C & C#, so it's not a problem if I have to learn a new language.
Any help would be appreciated.
You may be able to use a Headless CMS. These approaches normally are driven by git or some kind of API (you don't have to write any backend code) to add content to static sites such as yours. Although most of them work with markdown, so you may need some way to render the markdown into your HTML.
Headless CMS is normally used within Jamstack projects, so I'd suggest checking that out if that is something you're interested in.
I learned that I need server-side processing with languages like PHP or Phyton. However, Github Pages is a static site service and does not support dynamic web sites. So I will whether keep writing locally or consider another hosting services.
I have been coding html/css for some time now, and I've gotten to be proficient at coding single webpages, but I can't figure out how to code a website. Some questions I have are:
Do I need to buy a domain if I want to build a website (for practice)
Are their special things I need to know (such as special tags) that I wouldn't have learned from coding just a single page?
Should I learn how to use a grid if I am coding multiple pages?
You may want to first decide what kind of back end you want (the server side code that builds and delivers the pages) I strongly recommend rails, and a react.rb.
You do not need a domain name.
A great way to start is to use a service like cloud9 which is free, and will get you going in no time. Cloud9 will do a one button setup of a rails environment and get you going.
Another approach is to begin using react.rb and just expand your skill set from the front end towards the server. The react.rb tutorial creates a simple chat application and you can do this all with the tools your already have. Once you have mastered that you can set up a simple rails server and start adding server side persistance (saving data on the server.) This is the approach I recommend, but full discloure: I am one of the leads on the react.rb project so I am very biased.
Well, you can build simple to wonderful STATIC websites from HTML/CSS but if you are talking about some serious web development then you will need to learn a server side scripting language. Most of the websites these days are database driven serverside webpages. There are many serverside programming languages and tutorials for the same out there.
I suggest you start with PHP (for scripting language) and MySql (for database)
Again, the choice of language is totally upto you.
Then you would need to learn about setting up a server on your local computer. For this you will need to learn about (x)-AMP. This would be WAMP, XAMP, MAMP depending on what OS you are using.
If you are only needing to develop a simple CMS website, then there are alot of CMS framework which you can go for, which will not require much of coding.
It seems as if you are looking to connect multiple pages to the same website, so you can navigate between pages. And it seems that you want to practice with local files. If that is the case, you need to first create a local folder for your website and use the a tag in your html files. Inside the a tag, you will need to include an href with the url to your other page. A link to another html page that is saved in the same folder as your original will look like this:
New Page
You will want to use external CSS and JavaScript files to keep all of your pages in the same format.
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_link.asp
Mostly for learning and testing-purposes, I need an environment/software where I can apply XSL Transformations on websites (html).
It needs to support Sessions and Cookies because of a login required to actually reach the pages I want to transform via XSL.
The manual method aka calling the page in the browser and download it and copy into Eclipse for example, is too slow. I need an automated system.. if possible one which can call multiple pages via a script.
I know that this could be realized with a lot of coding in Java, but I hoped for a simpler solution...
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
No clue why people have downed this question -_-', but I've found a sufficing solution:
Using "wget" for downloading the files and Saxon HE (NET) for actually applying the transformations. Those programs can be easily called from windows CMD :)
I am trying to make some extra web pages for a test buildbot, since I am planning to have one running my project.
Practically I would like to have a waterfall page that show the button to build a specific builder, close to the build name, instead than in the builder page only. I would also like to have some reference documents loaded from inside the builder work folder, and from other locations on the slave machine; using buttons to display or hide them.
I've looked at the manual and I do not see any info about how do you customize or create new html pages, that can leverage on the Buildbot features (like the templates already included with Buildbot do).
I have opened some pages, and see that there are some html files that actually has non-html code statements like
% macro
% for
And so on. I am not a web programmer so I am quite clueless about what should I look for. Tried to google the word macro for HTML and I just got a bunch of results related to Wiki customization; it does not look like it is Python language so I am quite lost.
Is there anyone that was successfully able to make custom pages for the buildbot, and could give me some pointers about what to learn?
Buildbot uses jinja2 for templating, the jinja2 homepage has some nice documentation. This is where the non-html statements come from. I found google's chromium buildbot to be a good starting point, when learning about buildbot customization.
http://buildbot.net/buildbot/docs/0.8.7/developer/webstatus.html
http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/tools/build/masters/master.chromium/templates/