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HTML Management System
Bernhard Daubner
October 1996
Abstract
The HTML Management System (HMS) is a collection of tools, that
supports the creation of HTML pages in distributed environments.
This means that different authors can write pieces of HTML code and
store them in their home directories, and the HMS puts them all together
into a common WWW directory and provides a consistent "Look and Feel"
to these pages.
Introduction
At the Chair of Applied Mathematics the problem arose that several work groups
wanted to publish HTML documents about their projects and the corresponding
literature, whereas these pages should have a common "Look and Feel" and
additionally there should be some overview pages that provide an overview
on these separately generated pages.
Due to security aspects it is not possible to grant write permissions to all
work groups for the above mentioned pages. Instead of that each work group
write their pages in their own directories and then call the routines of the
HTML Management System. These routines run 'setuid btm543'
(with previleged write permissions) and generate new HTML document from the
information provided in the work group's documents.
The generated HTML documents
Project overview
The HMS generates a overview page with information about the different projects
of the chair:
<![CDATA[
http://numerik.mathematik.uni-bayreuth.de/proj/projects.html
]]>
The contents of this page is extracted from the files projects.html
that are maintained by the individual work groups.
For each project the file projects.html must contain a paragraph
with the project title as a <H2> headline.
Example:
<![CDATA[
<H2>Set-Valued Numerical Analysis</H2>
Numerical algorithms for set-valued mappings are developed, analysed
theoretically and tested numerically.
<TABLE>
<TR>
<TH>Coordinator:</TH>
<TD>Prof. Dr. Frank Lempio</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TH ALIGN=left>Cooperator:</TH>
<TD>Dr. Robert Baier</TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
<HR>
<H2>Improvement of Online- and CD-ROM Database Access</H2>
<TABLE>
<TR>
<TH>Coordinator:</TH>
<TD>Prof. Dr. Frank Lempio</TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TH ALIGN=LEFT>Cooperator:</TH>
<TD>Dr. Robert Baier </TD>
</TR>
</TABLE>
]]>
Project papers
For each project the work groups can create a file with descriptions of the
corresponding papers.
Example:
<![CDATA[
<H2>Improvement of Online- and CD-ROM Database Access</H2>
<DL>
<P>
<DT>
Lempio, Frank:
<DD>
<B>Einführung in die Benutzung der Datenbanken MATH und
CompactMATH,</B><BR>
2. Auflage, Bayreuth 1994.<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.mathematik.uni-bayreuth.de/serv/proj/recherche/einfuehrung.dvi">DVI-File</A> or
<A HREF="http://www.mathematik.uni-bayreuth.de/serv/proj/recherche/einfuehrung.ps">Postscript-File</A>
</DD>
</DL>
]]>
A <H2> headling must contain the name of the project
(as in projects.html). The papers must be specified in a
description list (<DL>) as shown in the example.
The HMS generates for each project a list of
corresponding papers and inserts
them in the
complete paper list of the chair.
Paper overview
Finally the HMS generates a overview page that provides the papers
sorted by project.
The HMS commands
The HMS commands can be found in the directory
/home2/btm543/http-data/skripts
and must be run on SGI computers
(e.g. btrzxa.fddi.uni-bayreuth.de) of the HRZ.
The command HMSpublishPapers is used to publish the
papers of the individual projects.
For each project a file containing the corresponding
literature is created. The file pathes together with the project names are
stored in a DBM database. What is more a complete list of all papers is
created.
The command HMSpublishProjects creates the
Project overview on all projects.
If the project description in the source file does not contain a link
to the "Corresponding literature", the DBM database
is searched, whether is contains information about the literature.
The command HMScreatePaperindex finally creates the
Paper overview.
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