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NAME
Domesday PROJECT FILES - Files which determine how Domesday should
create an index.
DESCRIPTION
The Domesday program uses project files to determine how it should
generate indices. Once a project file has been set up, it is possible
to get Domesday to run autonomously, perhaps as parts of a weekly cron
script. There are two ways in which a project file can be set up:
using the graphical indexgengui program; or by editing project file
templates directly. The gui is highly recommended as it includes far
more documentation than in the template files.
This document describes the project settings files.
FILE FORMAT
Project settings files are simple text files as created by your
favourite text editor (vim, emacs or Windows Notepad). They can have
any name you choose, but this file name must be supplied to the
Domesday program when it is run.
Settings are all key-value pairs, often of varying length. In some
cases, the test of a setting has to be one of a number of predefined
values; these will be listed below. Shorter settings can be written on
a single line in the form
setting_name = setting_value
Longer settings values, and values requiring multiple lines may be
written in the following form:
settings_name)
value line 1
value line 2
...
;;
Domesday will accept either form (long or short) for every setting, so
it is left entirely the choice of the user as to which format is used.
Comments
The settings file includes comments, used in the template to give a
short reminder of what each setting does. Comments begin with the %
character and continue to the end of the line.
PLACEHOLDERS
The following section explains what settings must appear in the project
file. Many of the settings are for code which should be copied
directory to the output file. In order to give you as much power as
possible in controlling to final sitemap, we allow these to be in any
format. Details extracted by index generator will be inserted in your
text in place of placeholders.
<IG Field="placeholder name" attr1="attrib 1" attr2="attrib2"/>
Placeholder name determines what data should be inserted in place of
this tag. The placeholder name has to be one of the predefined values,
although the search routine is case insensitive, so the upper/lower
case characters do not have to be strictly followed. If a placeholder
name is not recognised by Index Generator (e.g. if it was mistyped), an
error will be emmitted on the console, but the index generation process
will continue with the placeholder being replaced by a html comment
explaining that it was not understood.
The key/value pairs of attributes in the placeholder are entirely
optional and depend on the placeholder being used. Typically, these are
used to give additional formatting information. A number of
placeholders are valid only in a particular place in the index. These
will be detailed in the section approrpriate to that settings. Many
placeholders, however, are valid at any point in the settings file;
others are valid at a number of places. These are detailed below.
GenDate placeholder
This adds the date or time when the index was generated. This is useful
so that visitors can see whether the index is likely to be correct and
it also gives an idea of how much care goes into the website. If you
have Domesday run automatically at regular intervals, e.g. weekly, this
will probably impress visitors.
With no attributes, this prints a system standard date. Alternatively,
you can specify a format attribute with a string determining exactly
how the date should be displayed. The attribute takes the form of a
simple string with fields for each part of the date to be printed. The
possible fields are:
Field Full Form Short Form
Year yyyy (4 digits) yy (2 digits)
Month MMMM (name) MM (2 digits), M (1 or 2
digits)
Day of week EEEE EE
Day of Month dd(2 digits) d (1 or 2 digits)
Hour (1-12) hh h
Hour (1-24) kk k
Minute mm
Second ss
Millisecond SSS
AM/PM a
Time Zone zzzz zz
Day of Week in Month F (e.g. 3rd Thursday)
Day in Year DDD D (1, 2 or 3 digits)
Week in Year ww
Era G (BC/AD)
IndexGenURL placeholder
This is replaced by the URL to the program’s website. Please consider
including a link to the site so that other people may find out about
the program. This placeholder takes no options.
IndexGenVersion placeholder
This is replaced by the version string of the program used to generate
the index. It takes no options.
OutputName placeholder
This is replaced by the name of the outputfile, not including the path
OutputPath placeholder
This is replaced with the path of the output file on the local
filesystem.
FileCount placeholder
This is replaced by the number of files included in the index.
FILE PLACEHOLDERS
The following are valid in settings which deal specifically with a
single file being indexed, e.g. smLinkTxt, olLinkTxt. Note that they
may not be present in some file types. In files with badly defined
fields, the program will try to replace the placeholders with something
useful. For example, if an html file doesn’t contain a meta description
field, text from the first paragraph will be used as the description.
Author placeholder
Title placeholder
Description placeholder
Keywords placeholder
This has the option separator which determines what string should be
placed between each keyword. Currently the default is ‘, ’ although
that cannot be guaranteed
FileSize placeholder
This is replaced with the size of the file, in Bytes by default. There
is a single option for this, format, which determines how the field
should be formatted. It takes the following values:
bytes - Prints the size of the file in Bytes kilobytes - Prints the
size in Kilobytes (1024 Bytes) megabytes - Prints the size in Megabytes
(1024 KB) HumanReadable - Prints the size of the file in a form which
is easily readable, including a suffix. (e.g. 978 B, 12.9 MB).
FileType placeholder
Currently, this is replaced by a string representing the type of file
(e.g html). In the future, this will probably be changed to have more
information regarding the file, e.g. baseType html, version 4.0.1
transitional, charset... If you particularaly want this feature,
please get in contact with us.
Parser placeholder
This is replaced with a string description of the Domesday parser which
was used to extract the details from the file. It is probably only
useful for debugging.
FileName placeholder
This is replaced by the name of the file, not including path. In the
case of URL’s which don’t include a file name, it will be the last part
of the path.
RealLocation placeholder
This is replaced by the location of the file as Domesday found it.
RelLocation placeholder
This is replaced by the location of the file relative to the location
of the output file. If that cannot be determined, the absolute location
will be given instead.
PROJECT FILE SETTINGS
locale
The first setting in the file should be for the Locale. This determines
what language the setting file has been created in. The names of the
settings are different for each Locale. If you do not wish to create a
settings file in the English locale, please look at the appropriate
Domesday.project.language manual page.
settingsVersion
This is the version of the settings being used. When we change the
settings file format, we will increase this version and also document
the changes between the various version so that you can easily upgrade
your files.
INDEX FILE SETTINGS
These determine how to find files to include in the index and also
where the output should be placed.
getMethod
todo
fileSystemSearch
todo
scanRoot
todo
httpHeaders
todo
scanIncludeFilters
todo
scanExcludeFilters
todo
indexIncludeFilters
todo
indexExcludeFilters
todo
outputFileName
todo
PROJECT DETAILS
These settings ... todo
indexType
todo
filesToCopy
todo
fileCopyTarget
todo
SITEMAP SETTINGS
This section of settings only apply if the sitemap index type was chosen. If
it was not, this section can be ignored.
smStartTxt
todo
Sitemap Folder Settings
The following settings are used to create the hierarchical format for
the site map. They are allowed to use the additional placeholders
FullRelFolder and TopFolder todo
smEnterFolder
todo
smLeaveFolder
todo
smLinksTxt
todo
smEndTxt
todo
ORDERED LIST SETTINGS
todo
olSortKey
todo
olArticles
todo
olStartTxt
todo
olNavStart
todo
olNavLinks
todo
olNavEnd
todo
olSecStart
todo
olSecEnd
todo
olLink
todo
olEndTxt
todo
GUI SETTINGS
These settings are used by the gui, and so are probably not useful when
editing the files manually
projectName
todo
created
todo
loadAsTheme
todo
fileCount
todo
genCount
todo
VIM SYNTAX FILE
Users of the Vim text editor might like to have syntax highlighting
while editing project files. To do this, they should copy the included
indexgen.vim syntax file to ~/.vim/syntax/. If the settings file
template is used, this will be loaded automatically. If not, then type
the vim command :se syntax=indexgen.
EXAMPLES
The GUI allows users to select template files to determine the intial
look of the index before continuing to define any customisations to
these. On most systems, these can be found in
/usr/share/Domesday/templates/ todo
SEE
Domesday(1), indexgengui(1).
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Mark Howard <mh@tildemh.com>
11 Sept 2002 DOMESDAY.PROJECT(5)