[x3d-public] jupyter notebook; X3DOM syntax for including X3D within HTML

Fri May 31 17:56:42 PDT 2019

Well, if it was xhtml we were talking about you would be correct.

But, it is html without the x which is expected by the HTML renderer
in Jupyter. There is no XHTML renderer since the Jupyter notebook
itself is a HTML document.

And html allows singleton tags only for certain tags, at least in how
all browser parse the markup, and probably also as defined in the
HTML5 spec. These certain tags may include all known HTML elements
which do not use their text content. Unfortunately, the X3D tags are
considered Unknown Elements by html and they seem to require the
explicit end tag.

x3dom does not use any HTML parsing libraries but completely relies on
the web browser to do the parsing. And the browsers get confused,
because they do not understand the singleton x3d tags in a html
document.

Alas, if the xml serializing library in X3DJSAIL does not have an
option to generate full tags (they would be still legal XML, no?), we
would need to settle for xhtml IFrames which can also be included in a
Jupyter notebook (but not tested yet), or, as another option, wrap the
xml X3D into an Inline since x3dom always uses the browser XML parser
for Inlines. Would x3d.toStringX3DInline(filename) be considered too
extravagant ? It would generate an xml X3D document string with a
single Inline node, and also the content X3D in the file filename.
x3d.toFileX3DInline(x3dFileName, inlineFileName) would generate two
files.

Perhaps Python has an option to serialize out the full tags, perhaps
as HTMLFragments. Then a x3d.toStringFullTags() could be included
outside of X3DJSAIL, and with X3DPSAIL.

To consider X_ITE and x3dom together it would be first necessary get
X_ITE to work at all with Jupyter locally generated content. It may be
possible since X_ITE works with remote URLs in Jupyter.

-Andreas

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> Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 10:14:05 +0000
> From: "Brutzman, Donald (Don) (CIV)" <brutzman at nps.edu>
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> Subject: Re: [x3d-public] jupyter notebook; X3DOM syntax for including
>         X3D within HTML/XHTML
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> thanks for great progress.
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> On 5/28/2019 12:12 PM, Andreas Plesch wrote:
> > - x3dom has a problem with generated X3D outside of an Inline because
> > the serialized XML output uses self-closing tags such as <Material />
> > which is not HTML compatible.
>
> HTML allows singleton elements, i.e. self-closing tags.
>
> Similarly, element CamelCaseElementNames are legal, so we should not have to rename <Material/> to <material></material> simply because of similarity to another language's naming patterns.
>
> i think root of this problem likely lies in how X3DOM uses the accompanying DOM libraries - not sure of those details.
>
> Note that I got *all* of the X_ITE and X3DOM examples to work with HTML by assigning scenes to .html and .xhtml respectively.
>
> http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dResources.html#Examples
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> http://x3dgraphics.com/examples/X3dForWebAuthors/Chapter01TechnicalOverview/HelloWorldIndex.html
> http://x3dgraphics.com/examples/X3dForWebAuthors/Chapter01TechnicalOverview/HelloWorldX3dom.xhtml
> http://x3dgraphics.com/examples/X3dForWebAuthors/Chapter01TechnicalOverview/HelloWorldX_ITE.html
>
> > So the suggestion would be to provide a method, say
> > x3d.toStringX3DClosingTags(), which generates explicit closing tags:
> > <Material></Material>
>
> I don't think it is good to propagate a side-effect fix (which encourages mysterious improper practices and hides path towards fixes).
>
> Rather it is more desirable to isolate and fix the actual problem.  If someone can figure out why X3DOM runs differently when included within .xhtml and .html pages, that may reveal whatever idiosyncrasy is actually occurring.
>
> Finally we want to match the same patterns in X_ITE and X3DOM so that choice of player is independent of source-model syntax when using X3D version 4.  So this is a worthy mismatch to figure out and fix.  Hopefully we can get closer to sorting things out fully.
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> Meanwhile: found and fixed several errors in online X3DOM .xhtml examples:
> - corrected url to match changed release address:
>    https://x3dom.org/release/x3dom.css
>    https://x3dom.org/release/x3dom-full.js
>
> - fixed bug in X3dToX3dom.xslt code logic in order to include function toggleFullscreen ()
>
> - using XHTML Transitional (vice Strict) DTD in order for anchor target attribute to pass validation
>    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4666523/xhtml-strict-1-0-target-blank-not-valid
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> X3dToX3dom.xslt stylesheet correction checked in, X3DOM example pages updated and uploaded.  Having fun with X3DOM!  8)
>
> all the best, Don
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