Description

This is a Python module that converts XDXF formatted dictionary texts into HTML, written in modern C++.

It depends on nothing except for a C++11-compliant compiler. The parser does no error checking to minimise overhead.

Installation

pip install xdxf2html

Building

python3 setup.py build

Usage

>>> import xdxf2html
>>> xdxf2html.convert('''<k>Liverpool</k>
... <blockquote><dtrn>a large city and port in north-west England, on the River Mersey. It first became important during the <kref>Industrial Revolution</kref>, producing and exporting cotton goods. It was also a major port for the slave trade, receiving profits from the sale of slaves in America. In the 20th century the city became famous as the home of the <kref>Beatles</kref> and for Liverpool and Everton football clubs. Among its many famous buildings are the Royal Liver Building with its two towers, the Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals, and the <kref>Walker Art Gallery</kref>.</dtrn> <rref>portlpool.jpg</rref></blockquote>
... <blockquote>See also <kref>Mersey beat</kref>.</blockquote>''', 'test_dict')
'<h3 class="headword">Liverpool</h3><div class="xdxf-definition" style="margin-left: 0em;">a large city and port in north-west England, on the River Mersey. It first became important during the <a href="/api/lookup/test_dict/Industrial Revolution">Industrial Revolution</a>, producing and exporting cotton goods. It was also a major port for the slave trade, receiving profits from the sale of slaves in America. In the 20th century the city became famous as the home of the <a href="/api/lookup/test_dict/Beatles">Beatles</a>and for Liverpool and Everton football clubs. Among its many famous buildings are the Royal Liver Building with its two towers, the Anglican and Roman Catholic cathedrals, and the <a href="/api/lookup/test_dict/Walker Art Gallery">Walker Art Gallery</a>.<img src="/api/cache/test_dict/portlpool.jpg" alt="portlpool.jpg"/></div><div class="xdxf-definition" style="margin-left: 0em;">See also <a href="/api/lookup/test_dict/Mersey beat">Mersey beat</a>.</div>'

The module has only one method: convert, which takes two arguments: the XDXF text and the name of the dictionary. It returns the HTML text.

Appendix: a hopefully complete listing of XDXF tags, both standard and non-standard

This section will only include tags found within the dictionary 'body', i.e. <lexicon>.

Representational tags

• <b>, <i>, <u>, <sub>, <sup>, <tt>, <br>: Could be directly translated into HTML.
• <c>: Colour, indicated by the attribute c. Converted to a <span> with the style color: c. The default colour is darkgreen.

<div> like tags

• <ar>: Article, ignored in this project.
• <def>: Definition, converted to a <div> with the class xdxf-definition. If the attribute cmt is present, write it as a <span> with the class comment inside the <div>; if the attribute freq is present, write it as a <span> with the class frequency inside the <div>.
• <ex>: Example, converted to a <div> with the class example and the style margin-left: 1em; color: grey;.
• <co>: Comment, converted to a <div> with the class comment.
• <sr>: 'Semantic relations', converted to a <div> with the class semantic-relations.
• <etm>: Etymology, converted to a <div> with the style color: grey;.
• <blockquote>: Not in the specification, but I've seen it. Converted to a <p>.

<span> like tags

• <k>: Keyword, namely the headword, converted to an <h3> with the class headword.
• <opt>: Optional part of the keyword, converted to a <span> with the class optional.
• <deftext>: Definition text, ignored in this project.
• <gr>: Grammatical information, converted to a <span> with the style font-style: italic; color: darkgreen;.
• <pos>, <tense>: Ignored.
• <tr>: Transcription, converted to a <span> with the class transcription.
• <kref>: Keyword reference, converted to an <a> with the href attribute properly set (in this project, to /api/lookup/name of dictionary/keyword). If the attribute type is set, prepend the value of the attribute to the keyword with a colon and a space.
• <iref>: External reference, could be directly converted to an <a>.
• <dtrn>: Definition translation, in practice used as an equivalent of <def>. So we'd better ignore it.
• <abbr>, <abr>: Abbreviation, converted to a <span> with the class abbreviation and the style color: darkgreen; font-style: italic;.
• <ex_orig>, <ex_trn>: Example original and translation, converted to a <span> with the class example-original and example-translation respectively.
• <exm>, <prv>, <oth>: Used inside <ex>, ignored in this project.
• <mrkd>: Marked text, converted to a <span> with the style background-color: yellow;.
• <nu>: Not-used, not explained in the specification. Ignored in this project.
• <di>: 'Don't index', ignored in this project.
• <syn>, <ant>, <hpr>, <hpn>, <par>, <spv>, <mer>, <hol>, <ent>, <rel>, <phr>: Phrasemes (don't know really what they are). <syn> and <ant> are converted to <span> with the class synonym and antonym respectively, and the tag name is prepended to the text content with : . The rest are ignored.
• <categ>: Category, ignored in this project.

Media files

Always in an <rref> tag. The standard prescribes that the filename should be specified in the lctn attribute, but in practice, the filename is just the text child of the tag. Converted to <img>, <audio>, <video> or <a> depending on the file extension.