Re: [Biborb-general] trouble shooting questions

[Guillaume Gardey]

"Export to HTML" and "Export to BibTeX"  cause the papers present in 
the basket to be transform in HTML (to have the HTML code for web home 
pages for instance) or BibTeX (to save a subset of the bibliography 
somewhere else). At the end of the first line of each entry there is a 
small "+" that adds the papers to the basket.

Concerning "update from BibTeX" and "update from XML", they are not 
this kind of "import".

I briefly explain how BibORB runs.
When creating a new bibliography "sample", a new directory "sample" is 
created. In this directory, a directory "papers" is created to store 
uploaded files (url,urlzip,pdf fields) and two files "sample.bib" 
"sample.xml" are created. "sample.bib" and "sample.xml" contain the 
same data, but just formatted differently. So when you edit, modify or 
display entries, the "sample.xml" file is modified or processed whit 
XSLT to render an HTML output. BibORB transform each time the 
"sample.xml" file is modified in "sample.bib" in order to have an 
up-to-date copy in BibTeX of the bibliography.
So, "update from BibTeX" means that BibORB will translate "sample.bib" 
into "sample.xml" to update the database and "update from BibTeX" 
"sample.xml" into "sample.bib". These two functions are useful if you 
use an external editor to edit your bibliography in BibTeX format or in 
XML.

If you want to import an existing bibliography, you should just copy it 
to "sample.bib" and "update from BibTeX". BibORB will update the XML 
and you will be able to browse your bibliography.

It is exact there is no HTML output anywhere: pages are generated on 
demand using PHP for the interface (menu) and XSLT to display entries.

I promise i will put some more documentation in the definitive release. 
I also take into account your remarks concerning import, an interface 
to import an existing bibliography will be nice (another line in my 
TODO :) ).

Thanks a lot.

Guillaume


Le 17 janv. 04, à 03:22, Feiyi Wang a écrit :

> Excellent, both problems have been solved.  Many thanks
>
> For the second problem, XSLT not enabled, it turns out I have to 
> install sablot, rebuild from source rpm since the distribution I am 
> using (Fedora) do not have this built-in. So I am now able to insert 
> entry.
>
> Two extra questions pop out now:
>
> Three menu items: export to HTML, export to bibtex, and update from 
> bibtex don't have any output (take you to a blank page), no error 
> output either.
>
> I was assuming "update from bibtex" is like some sort of *import* 
> funtion, where I can upload my previous bibtex file, but it shows 
> nothing
>
> I did notice there is a .bib file generated in directory bibs/ (not 
> html output anywhere), but I was expecting you will be prompted to 
> save a exported bibtex file, am I understanding this correct?
>
> Feiyi
>
>
>
> Guillaume Gardey wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Concerning the first bug, I just fixed it and updated both CVS and 
> > biborb-1.2pre.tar.gz. The creation of bibliographies should be ok now 
> > (I hope so ... :) ) wihtout the warnings.
> > Do not forget to set the "bibs" directory writable by your web server 
> > (www, www-data, apache ...).
> >
> > Concerning the second one, it seems that xslt modules are not 
> > activated in your php configuration. To activate it, you should 
> > ensures that the line "extension=xslt.so" (*nix) or 
> > "extension=php_xslt.dll" (windows) is present in your php.ini file 
> > without the semicolon at the beginning.  Depending on the system you 
> > use, you may need to install xslt modules if not provided with php. I 
> > can provide you more details on that point if you use *nix 
> > (especially debian) or MacOsX. I fear I can not help for windows 
> > system (if anyone as experiences in installing and running biborb on 
> > windows I will be happy)
> >
> > Thanks a lot for reporting these bugs.
> >
> > Guillaume Gardey
> >
> >
> > Le 16 janv. 04, à 17:06, Feiyi Wang a écrit :
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > First of all, thanks for Gardey writing the bib software, I am 
> > > interested to use it if I can get it to work ...
> > >
> > > First problem: creating the database, after I type in information, 
> > > the following warning showed up:
> > >
> > > Warning: copy(./data/template/description.txt): failed to open 
> > > stream: No such file or directory in/var/biborb/action_proxy.phpon 
> > > line 173
> > >
> > > Warning: chmod(): No such file or directory 
> > > in/var/biborb/action_proxy.phpon line 176
> > >
> > > Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by 
> > > (output started at /var/biborb/action_proxy.php:173) 
> > > in/var/biborb/action_proxy.phpon line 193
> > >
> > >
> > > Second problem: then it appears that the databasse has been created 
> > > after all if you back up, but when you click on it, the following 
> > > fatal error appeared.
> > >
> > > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: xslt_create() 
> > > in/var/biborb/utilities.phpon line 100
> > >
> > >
> > > Any clues?
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> Feiyi Wang (Ph.D)
> Principal Research Scientist
> Advanced Networking Research Division
> MCNC Research & Development Institute
> Voice: (919) 248-1421 Fax: (919) 248-1455