Re: [gutvol-d] XML version of some books of PG (and other formats)

3 Dec 2004

      The hard part is getting the table info within PG text 80 column width.

A typical table might be 4 columns wide and 5 rows tall.

Here is a fairly simple one from a Basebal Guide text I'm working on...

 Club.       Won. Lost. P.C.
Chicago       42   14   .788
Hartford      47   21   .691
St. Louis     45   19   .703
Boston        39   31   .557
Louisville    30   36   .455
Mutual        21   35   .375
Athletic      14   45   .237
Cincinnati     9   56   .135

Here is one a little more complex... It has more text columns.

                     THE RECORD OF 1875.
 Club.         Won. Lost. P.C.        Club.            Won. Lost. P.C.
Boston ........ 71    8   .809       St. Louis Reds .... 4   14   .222 
Athletic ...... 55   28   .756       Washington ........ 4   22   .156
Hartford ...... 54   28   .639       New Haven ......... 7   39   .152 
St. Louis* .... 29   39   .574       Centennial......... 2   13   .133
Philadelphia .. 37   31   .544       Western ........... 1   12   .077
Chicago ....... 30   37   .448       Atlantic .......... 2   42   .065
Mutual ........ 29   38   .426

FYI, this table becomes this in TEI markup (NOTE: I made the second Club column just continue under the first for simplicities sake):

<table rows="16" cols="4">
<row>
  <cell cols="4" role="label">THE RECORD OF 1875.</cell>
</row>
<row>
  <cell role="label">Club.</cell><cell role="label">Won.</cell><cell role="label">Lost.</cell><cell role="label">P.C.</cell>
</row>
<row>
  <cell role="data">Boston</cell><cell role="data">71</cell><cell role="data">8</cell><cell role="data">.809</cell>
</row>
<row>
  <cell role="data">Athletic</cell><cell role="data">55</cell><cell role="data">28</cell><cell role="data">.756</cell>
</row>
<row>
  <cell role="data">Hartford</cell><cell role="data">54</cell><cell role="data">28</cell><cell role="data">.639</cell>
</row>
<row>
  <cell role="data">St. Louis</cell><cell role="data"><sic corr="39">29</sic></cell><cell role="data"><sic corr="29">39</sic></cell><cell role="data">.574</cell>
</row>
<row>
  <cell role="data">Philadelphia</cell><cell role="data">37</cell><cell role="data">31</cell><cell role="data">.544</cell>
</row>
<row>
  <cell role="data">Chicago</cell><cell role="data">30</cell><cell role="data">37</cell><cell role="data">.448</cell>
</row>
<row>
  <cell role="data">Mutual</cell><cell role="data">29</cell><cell role="data">38</cell><cell role="data">.426</cell>
</row>
<row>
  <cell role="data">St. Louis Reds</cell><cell role="data">4</cell><cell role="data">14</cell><cell role="data">.222</cell>
</row>
<row>
  <cell role="data">Washington</cell><cell role="data">4</cell><cell role="data">22</cell><cell role="data">.156</cell>
</row>
<row>
  <cell role="data">New Haven</cell><cell role="data">7</cell><cell role="data">39</cell><cell role="data">.152</cell>
</row>
<row>
  <cell role="data">Centennial</cell><cell role="data">2</cell><cell role="data">13</cell><cell role="data">.133</cell>
</row>
<row>
  <cell role="data">Western</cell><cell role="data">1</cell><cell role="data">12</cell><cell role="data">.077</cell>
</row>
<row>
  <cell role="data">Atlantic</cell><cell role="data">2</cell><cell role="data">42</cell><cell role="data">.065</cell>
</row>
</table>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sebastien Blondeel" <blondeel@clipper.ens.fr>
To: "Project Gutenberg Volunteer Discussion" <gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org>
Subject: Re: [gutvol-d] XML version of some books of PG (and other formats)
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 16:16:02 +0100
...
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 08:46:10AM -0500, Joshua Hutchinson wrote:
...
I'm curious to see if your script can handle tables.  That is our
current biggest bugaboo when it comes to transforming to PG TXT
format.
My DTD doesn't mention them (yet?). It focuses mainly on the French
books of the ebooksgratuits site. I guess it can very easily be injected
in a more complete DTD (TEI, Docbook, whatever).
I already did Perl (not XSLT!) translations of XML tables (Docbook, for
example) to other formats (HTML: easy; LaTeX: harder...; TXT: w3m -dump
of the HTML version is usually good enough) for other projects.
I heard there were now Perl modules able to deal with XML and XSLT so it
should be even easier to take care of. XSLT-style of programming is not
for me...
How complex are your tables and what do you need to do with them? Any
example of (input, output desired, and constraints [API, language...] of
the transformation)?
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