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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>As far as I can tell, handleArguments does not handle JSON output. I will try x3d. Also, one should loop through the arguments, so one can have multiple outputs.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A help string like</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>[ [ -x3d | -java | -vrml | -validate] [ filename ]] …</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Might work better with a default filename and a default converter.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>John</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:brutzman@nps.edu">Don Brutzman</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, May 28, 2017 5:43 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:yottzumm@gmail.com">John Carlson</a>; <a href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org">X3D Graphics public mailing list</a><br><b>Subject: </b>X3D Scene Authoring Hints Strings table, plus X3DJSAIL improvementsfor MFString and command-line handling</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>OK more progress today. (Am starting a new thread since a number of changes have been applied that relate to many threads.)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1. First, added a table comparing MFString representations for multivarious file encodings and programming languages.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> X3D Scene Authoring Hints, Strings: SFString/MFString Encodings</p><p class=MsoNormal> http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/X3dSceneAuthoringHints.html#Strings</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This should make it easier to compare and comment and make corrections, less whipsawing from email and reply twists/turns.</p><p class=MsoNormal>Example excerpts:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>=======================</p><p class=MsoNormal>actual display value</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>One, Two, Three</p><p class=MsoNormal>He said, "Immel did it!"</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>=======================</p><p class=MsoNormal>XML encoding (.x3d)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>string='"One, Two, Three" "" "He said, \"Immel did it!\""'</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>or else various XML character-entity substitution alternatives such as</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>string='"One, Two, Three" "" "He said, \"Immel did it!\""'</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>string=""One, Two, Three" "" "He said, \"Immel did it!\"""</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>=======================</p><p class=MsoNormal>ClassicVRML encoding (.x3dv)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>string [ "One, Two, Three", "", "He said, \"Immel did it!\"" ]</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>=======================</p><p class=MsoNormal>VRML97 (.wrl)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>string [ "One, Two, Three", "", "He said, \"Immel did it!\"" ]</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>=======================</p><p class=MsoNormal>JSON encoding (.json)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>"@string": [ "One, Two, Three", "", "He said, \"Immel did it!\"" ]</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>=======================</p><p class=MsoNormal>X3DJSAIL (.java)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>.setString(new String [] {"One, Two, Three", "", "He said, \"Immel did it!\""})</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>.setString(new MFStringObject(new String [] {"One, Two, Three", "", "He said, \"Immel did it!\""}))</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>.setString(new MFStringObject("\"One, Two, Three\" \"\" \"He said, \\\"Immel did it!\\\"\"")) </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>=======================</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Will add more to this section, for example common character-entity substitutions. Review comments welcome.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2. Added a dedicated scene to test quotation mark escaping, adapting the Immel examples in various specifications.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/X3dSpecifications/StringArrayEncodingExamplesIndex.html</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>3. Copied the gnarly example Text node from that scene into HelloWorldProgram.java smoke test, also including a few Java variations.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Took some debugging, now seems to work for various conversions to .x3d .json .x3dv .wrl etc.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> http://www.web3d.org/specifications/java/X3DJSAIL.html#Examples</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>John if you look closely in there, all three forms are compiling OK. I tested several times so that each got exercised.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Looks like they work OK. Motivation: supporting multiple approaches provides programmer flexibility so that more than one style can work OK.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>4. Consolidated autogenerated source code per your suggestion John, adding two utility methods to X3DObject:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>X3DObject</p><p class=MsoNormal>http://www.web3d.org/specifications/java/javadoc/org/web3d/x3d/jsail/Core/X3DObject.html#method.summary</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> String handleArguments(java.lang.String[] argv)</p><p class=MsoNormal> Utility method for standalone programs that get created with X3dToJava.xslt stylesheet.</p><p class=MsoNormal> Invocation switches: -help -validate -x3d -x3dv -vrml -json -html -x3dom -cobweb [filename]</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> String validationReport()</p><p class=MsoNormal> Provide thorough X3DJSAIL validation results for this X3D model.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Example:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>/** Default main() method provided for test purposes.</p><p class=MsoNormal> * @param argv input parameters</p><p class=MsoNormal> */</p><p class=MsoNormal>public static void main(String argv[])</p><p class=MsoNormal>{</p><p class=MsoNormal> X3DObject exampleObject = new StringArrayEncodingExamples().getX3dModel();</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> exampleObject.handleArguments(argv);</p><p class=MsoNormal> System.out.print("StringArrayEncodingExamples execution self-validation test results: ");</p><p class=MsoNormal> String validationResults = exampleObject.validationReport();</p><p class=MsoNormal> System.out.println(validationResults);</p><p class=MsoNormal>}</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Haven't really tested handleArguments yet, so fire away!</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>5. Am rerunning all java conversions using X3dToJava.xslt stylesheet tonight to take advantage of main() optimizations and some \" string tweaks. Will upload when complete.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Song of the day: "Best of Both Worlds" by Van Hagar. 8)</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>all the best, Don</p><p class=MsoNormal>-- </p><p class=MsoNormal>Don Brutzman Naval Postgraduate School, Code USW/Br brutzman@nps.edu</p><p class=MsoNormal>Watkins 270, MOVES Institute, Monterey CA 93943-5000 USA +1.831.656.2149</p><p class=MsoNormal>X3D graphics, virtual worlds, navy robotics http://faculty.nps.edu/brutzman</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>