SWML stylesheets

K.J. Boal kjoanne403 at HOTMAIL.COM
Sat Feb 3 05:35:59 UTC 2007


Hi Jonathan,

I tried those three links . . . the first two (Humpty Dumpty & the 
Itsy-Bitsy Spider) worked pretty well.  The third one, though, that opened 
into SignText, had some problems: some of the signs were cut off halfway 
down.  That's a problem I notice a lot, though, even when I'm just using 
SignText:  When I press the "Options" button, parts of my signs disappear!  
I did have another problem with the Itsy-Bitsy spider though; at some part 
of each sign, they're labeled with sign numbers (sign 1, sign 13, sign 
10...) and I find that distracting.

I'm using Mozilla Firefox.

Hope the feedback helps!
Kelly Jo


>From: Jonathan <duncanjonathan at yahoo.ca>
>Reply-To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>Subject: [sw-l] SWML stylesheets
>Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:10:24 -0600
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>Hi Val, Steve and all the other sw-l members,
>
>    I noticed that Cherie has been
>doing very nice work with the rhymes lately.  But it seems to it is bit
>difficult yet
>transferring the data back
>in forth.  The long links often get split up when sent by email.  Then
>it
>has to be pasted back together before it´s pasted in the web browser. I 
>tried to figure out an easy way to send a bookmark. But my results
>were
>less than satisfactory.  Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I 
>guess it depends on the email servers our emails pass on our emails. The 
>only real way is to go to a site like http://www.tiny.cc/ and make
>a new link like http://www.tiny.cc/Littlelamb
>
>    So I tried to see if there was a better way of doing it.  I had
>thought of writting a plugging to show the SWML but that´s a bit beyond
>me yet
>at this point.  So I started looking into xml and found the xslt the
>xml
>stylesheets to style the xml so the web browsers can display it.  I
>wrote two of them.  One that only shows the symbols and one that also
>shows the glosses.  Once the stylesheet is mentioned in the swml file,
>open the file with the browser.  I got it working locally on my
>computer with
>Firefox.  It isn´t working yet with Internet Explorer because I don´t
>have a copy of the swml-s.dtd available.  Internet Explorer isn´t as
>forgiving as Firefox is.  (I looked for it at
>http://www.signpuddle.com/swml/swml-s.dtd  but it isn't there!!! Does
>anybody know where I can find swml-s.dtd???????????).  I must admit
>that it
>doesn't format the sign as nicely as Signpuddle but can be a solution
>to quickly show the contents of a swml file.  It loads the sign the
>first time (no need to refresh the web page for all of the signs to
>show correctly). You could publish the swml on your website without
>having to make a pdf version of it. When we put the stylesheet
>on the web then the only change we will have to do to make it work is
>add the following line to the SWML file:
>
><?xml-stylesheet
>type="text/xsl"
>href="http://signbank.org/signpuddle/signtext/swml.xsl"?>
>
>
>or
>wherever it´s stored on your website just after the <?xml
>version="1.0"?> .   The stylesheet seems to have to be stored on the
>same website as the swml file.  I tried having the swml file locally
>and the stylesheet on the webserver but it didn´t work  :-( .   But you can 
>have
>both files locally and it works just fine.
>Then opened the swml file in the Web browser and voilá!, you can now
>see
>all the signs.  Of course beforehand, we also need to change the
>following line in the xsl file to point to the directory where the
>IMWA png files are stored. These can be on the local computer or on any
>website.
>
><xsl:variable
>name="IMWA-URI">http://www.signbank.org/signpuddle/signtext/IMWA/</xsl:variable>
>
>    For unconnected people like myself we can keep a copy of the
>stylesheet on our computer pointing to where the IMWA files are stored
>on the computer.  And adjust the line in the xml where the stylesheet
>is kept.
>
>    So once I got all of that working, I realized that I was missing
>the biggest pieces of the puzzle.  The version of SignText that I have
>locally doesn't have any way to  import the SWML file.  So I went back
>the keyboard and punched out yet another stylesheet (swml-load.xsl)
>which loads the contents of the SWML file in signpuddle automagically. Once 
>again it's only a matter of referencing the stylesheet in the swml
>file as above.  But if the swml loads in SignPuddle, then there isn't
>any real reason to use the swml.xsl which only displays the swml.  But
>I guess it could be used if the main reason for posting the swml is so
>others can read it as opposed editing it ( the swml-load is best if we
>want others to edit it).
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>So these are my recomendations.
>
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>   Add the reference of the swml-load.xsl stylesheet to the SignText
>swml output so that the swml files can load automatically in SignText
>when opened in a web browser. Like this <?xml-stylesheet
>type="text/xsl" href="swml-load.xsl"?>  (the swml-load.xsl file will
>have have to be in the same directory as the swml for this to work)
>
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>   Add a function to the SignText to download the swml/xml file
>instead of having to copy and paste it into a notepad document.
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>About point number 2.  I tried find a good way to do this client side
>in javascript.  But it seems to me that javascript and browsers just
>aren't up to the task yet.  On one of my websites  it uses a script
>similar to the following to dynamically save a word document or a
>spreadsheet to the user's computer.  It in ASP VB.Net.  I don't know
>PHP but I'm sure that it should be able to do something similar.  I
>only left the parts that are relevant to saving a swml file.
>
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>Protected Sub Export_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
>System.EventArgs)
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>        Response.Clear()
>
>        Response.AddHeader("content-disposition",
>"attachmentfilename=FileName.xml")
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>        Response.Charset = ""
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>        Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache)
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>        Response.ContentType = "application/xml"
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>        Response.Write(Me.swml.text)
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>        Response.End()
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>    End Sub
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>Try the following link in your browser.  Please let me know if it
>worked for you or not and which browser you are using.
>
>
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>Cherie´s Humpty
>Dumpty just the signs http://www25.brinkster.com/jdpage/humpty.xml
>
>Cherie´s
>Itsy Bitsy Spider, signs and gloss
>http://www25.brinkster.com/jdpage/itsybitsySpider.xml
>
>Cherie´s
>Mary had a little lamb, Load directly into SignText
>http://www25.brinkster.com/jdpage/marylittlelamb.xml
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>
>Also try saving the attachments in one folder on your computer, then
>opening them in your web browser.
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>
>Looking forward to everybody's comments
>
>
>
>Jonathan
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>
>Cherie Wren wrote:
>
>
>Yes, thats exactly what it means.  The spider flips over, and goes right 
>back up
>the spout.
>
>cherie
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: Charles Butler <chazzer3332000 at YAHOO.COM>
>To: sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu
>Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 10:32:33 PM
>Subject: Re: [sw-l] itsy bitsy spider 2 again
>
>Not sure of next to the last sign in the second column.  Are you trying to 
>say
>that the wiggling spider turns over and then crawls away to go back up the
>waterspout.  This is really a fun nursery rhyme.
>
>Charles
>
>
>*/cwren at doe.k12.ga.us/* wrote:
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>     Redid "out came the sun", hope fully fixed some hand facings?
>     For the last nod on 'again' is there any way to show that it isn't a
>     standard nod? Its a slower big up-nod, then a faster down-nod... does 
>that
>     make sense?
>     cherie
>
>     Load message into SignText
>     
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>     Courtesy of SignBank.org <http://www.signbank.org/>
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><< swml-load.xsl >>


><< Humpty.xml >>


><< ItsybitsySpider.xml >>


><< Marylittlelamb.xml >>


><< swml.xsl >>


><< swml-gloss.xsl >>

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