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Bob is an HTML and HTML fragment builder

Documentation

To check out docs and examples, visit gitlab.schukai.com/oss/bob

Installation

wget -O ~/.local/bin/bob http://download.schukai.com/tools/bob/bob-$( uname -s | tr [:upper:] [:lower:])-$(echo `uname -m | sed s/aarch64/arm64/ | sed s/x86_64/amd64/`) && chmod u+x ~/.local/bin/bob

Nix/Flake Support

This repository contains a file called flake.nix. You can install this program using the nix package manager.

Usage

Template

Prepare

bob template prepare --input ./templates/ --output ./output/ --data-file ./data.yaml

This will create files in the ./output/ directory with all parsed templates from ./templates/ directory. Also, a data YAML. This data YAML is used to generate the final files with the bob html generate command.

This command prepares the title, description, keywords, and other metadata for the templates. Furthermore, it will parse the templates for images, anchors, and text.

If the argument --data-file is not set, the data YAML will be written to ./output/data.yaml.

Original Parsed
<html lang="en"><head> <html lang="en" data-attributes="lang path:lang"><head>
<title>Bob</title> <title data-attributes="title path:title">Bob</title>
<meta name="description" content="Bob is a html and html fragment builder"> <meta name="description" content="Bob is a html and html fragment builder" data-attributes="description path:meta.description">
<img alt="alt text" title="my title" src="..." <img alt="alt text" title="my title" src="..." data-attributes="alt path:img.id1003.alt title path:img.id1003.title src path:img.id1003.src">
<a href="https://gitlab.schukai.com/oss/bob"> <a href="https://gitlab.schukai.com/oss/bob" data-attributes="href path:a.id1004.href">
<p>Bob is a html and html fragment builder</p> <p><span data-attributes="text path:p.id1005.text">Bob is a html and html fragment builder</span></p>

If you want to translate the text, you can copy the default data.yaml to a new file and translate the text there.

A good practice is to use the language code as the file name. For example, de.yaml for German, en.yaml for English, etc.

Beside text, images and metadata, special attributes are also extracted. For example, the Monster datatable headers data-monster-head are extracted.

<monster-datatable>
    <template id="datatable-order-list-row">
        <div data-monster-head="OID" ...></a></div>
    ...

HTML

Generate

This will generate HTML files from the prepared templates and data YAML. The YAML must be located in the input directory. Any file with .yaml extension will be processed.

bob html generate --input ./input/ --output ./output/ --data-files ./pages/

If the --data-files' attribute is not defined, the --input' directory is used.

The yaml looks like:

test1.html:
    export: en/test1.html
    lang: en
    title: TEST
    meta:
        author: schukai GmbH
        description: 
    images:
        - id: tickyesdata-image-gi-4013311193
          source: |-
            data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODdhEAAQAMwAAPj7+FmhUYjNfGuxYYDJdYTIeanOpT+DOTuANXi/bGOrWj6CONzv2sPjv2Cm
              V1unU4zPgI/Sg6DJnJ3ImTh8Mtbs00aNP1CZSGy0YqLEn47RgXW8amasW7XWsmmvX2iuXiwAAAAAEAAQAAAFVyAgjmRpnihqGCkpDQ
              PbGkNUOFk6DZqgHCNGg2T4QAQBoIiRSAwBE4VA4FACKgkB5NGReASFZEmxsQ0whPDi9BiACYQAInXhwOUtgCUQoORFCGt/g4QAIQA7
          alt: tick
          title: "yes"
    anchors:
        - id: test-link-test-html
          href: /test.html
          hreflang: ""
          title: test-link
        - id: yes-a-html
          href: /a.html
          hreflang: ""
          title: "Yes"
    text:
        - text: The request was incorrect, the server could not process it.
          id: the-request-was-inco-2640993422
        - text: |-
            If you received this message as a result of a request to the server API, then check the structure
                            against the documentation.
          id: if-you-received-this-423958995
        - text: 'You   can   try    the following steps:'
          id: you-can-try-the-foll-3363859033
    translations:
        - id: translations
          type: application/json
          translations:
            key1: value1
            key2: value2
            key3:
                one: value3
                two: value4
    modifications:
        remove: 
          - .example1
        add: 
          - selector: .example2
            html: <b><span>New Content</span></b>
        attributes: 
          - selector: .example3
            name: data-example
            value: example

The translations are set in a json inside a script tag.

The `modifications' rules are executed last. Here you can remove tags, add content and set attributes.

Sync

This will sync HTML nodes from a source to a destination.

bob html sync --specification ./specification.yaml 

The structure of the specification file is as follows:

sync:
  - source:
      path: './source.html'
      selector: 'head'
    destination:
      path: './'
      exclude:
        - ./source.html
      keep:
        - title

With the above specification, the head node from ./source.html will be synced to all files in ./ except ./source.html. Furthermore, the title node will be kept.

Relative paths are relative to the specification file. Absolute paths are absolute, obviously.

Cut

This will cut a node from a source file and save it to a destination template file.

bob template cut --specification ./specification.yaml 

The structure of the specification file is as follows:

snippet:
  -
    source: ./test.html
    selector: 'head'
    destination: ./snippets/container.html
    attribute:
      - selector: 'li'
        name: 'class'
        value: 'list-item'
    replacement:
      -
        selector: '#myid'
        content: 'replacement content'

Relative paths are relative to the specification file.

Questions

For questions and commercial support, please contact schukai GmbH. The issue list of this repo is exclusively for bug reports and feature requests.

Issues

Please make sure to read the Issue Reporting Checklist before opening an issue. Issues not conforming to the guidelines may be closed immediately.

License

© schukai GmbH, released under the AGPL 3.0 License.

AGPL

You can also purchase a commercial license.