[x3d-public] x3d case correction tool

Tue Nov 3 13:57:45 PST 2015

Thanks for the lower case table stylesheet at
http://www.web3d.org/x3d/stylesheets/X3dElementsAttributesLowerCaseTableConstruction.xslt

It is more manageable for a xslt language novice. I think the idea would be
to use it as a basis to come up with a lowercase/anycase to x3d camelCase
xslt replacement rule style sheet.

I think I would try first to generate separate lists for elements and
attributes which the style sheet effectively already does, in sequence.

I have xstlproc installed: http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/xsltproc2.html . Let's
see how it works. What other processors are recommended ?

The use case for me is that it required quite a bit of repetitive effort to
get x3d output generated by the vrmath2.net editor such as

https://vrmath2.net/embed/?url=/sites/default/files/user/u342/x3d/helical_gears_smooth_opt.x3d

into a conforming format so that use of x3d-edit and xj3d would start to
make more sense. A lot of that effort was just to get the case correct.
Most of the remaining effort was to get rid of the nonconforming attributes
such as id. (Perhaps there is way to keep nonconforming attributes around
as comments).

So I was just envisioning a long, generated sed script with expressions
such as s/<elementname *>/<Elementname>/ or such and similar for closing
and empty tags, as well as attributes.

I think this would go a long way to reformat a nonconforming x3d document
towards conforming.

I may also give xmlsh at http://www.xmlsh.org/HomePage a try. It seems
appealing to me. (I just saw that it has some json support). Any experience
with it ?

Since html5 is (in general?) not case sensitive, prose on x3d vocabulary
within a html5 context would presumably be about what the recommended,
case-sensitive form is for reasons of validation, compatibility with xml
and other contexts, and general readability versus what the presumably
accepted but discouraged case-insensitive form is. Or is it something else
it should address ?

Andreas

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Don Brutzman <brutzman at nps.edu> wrote:

> Thanks for the good thinking.
>
> Some time ago, when first looking at HTML lower-case elements and X3DOM
> integration, there was good dialog on the mail lists.  No doubt available
> in the archives.
>
> It would appear that both forms (CamelCase and lowercase/miXedcAsE) are
> desirable for X3D authors depending on their html publication context.
>
> At that stage I created a stylesheet that creates a table for producing
> lower-case version of X3D element names and attributes.  It walks the X3D
> schema in a manner similar to what you are suggesting.
>
> http://www.web3d.org/x3d/stylesheets/
> http://www.web3d.org/x3d/stylesheets/X3dElementsLowerCaseTable.html
> http://www.web3d.org/x3d/stylesheets/X3dAttributesLowerCaseTable.html
>
> http://www.web3d.org/x3d/stylesheets/X3dElementsAttributesLowerCaseTable.txt
>
> http://www.web3d.org/x3d/stylesheets/X3dElementsAttributesLowerCaseTableConstruction.xslt
>
> Just tuned them up a little.  Might need more precise filtering to avoid
> duplicates, etc.
>
> Hopefully this is useful.
>
> As you point out, the X3D Tidy stylesheet looks at this task too.
>
> http://www.web3d.org/x3d/stylesheets/X3dTidy.html
> http://www.web3d.org/x3d/stylesheets/X3dTidy.xslt
>
> At this point, it might be good to articulate any use cases and the
> relevant HTML5 prose on case sensitivity.
>
> Open source.  All suggestions, improvements or additions welcome.
>
>
> On 11/3/2015 9:34 AM, Andreas Plesch wrote:
>
>> Since the idea of having a x3d document which is conforming as much as
>> possible is attractive, I am thinking of a tool which corrects element
>> names and attribute names to their correct case sensitive spelling. Is
>> there such a tool ?
>>
>> In principle I think it could work by:
>> 1) extract all element and attribute names from the .dtd and/or schema
>> 2) go through all elements (recursively) in (nonconforming) x3d document
>> 2a)  normalize element name to lower-case and see if there is a
>> corresponding normalized node name in dtd
>> 2b) if there is replace with correct, case sensitive element name
>>    if not flag as unknown (or ignore, optionally eliminate)
>> 2c) do the same for all used attribute names
>>
>> This would work for most if not all names since they can all (most?) be
>> distinguished in a case insensitive manner.
>>
>> The tool of choice would be a xsl style sheet which may have to be
>> generated by another stylesheet which processes the .dtd/schema. What would
>> be other strategies (going through json) ? How would one go about this in
>> more detail ? Perhaps the x3d-tidy.xsl style sheet is a starting point ? It
>> looks daunting.
>>
>> However, I would probably start much more straightforwardly by looking at
>> http://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3dDoctypeDocumentation3.3.html and
>> http://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3dSchemaDocumentation3.3/x3d-3.3.html
>> to assemble a list and then use unix tools such as sed/awk and such
>> to transform the x3d. What is used to generate the above documentation
>> from the .dtd/xsd ?
>>
>> Any input much appreciated,
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>>
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>
> all the best, Don
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