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SiSU - Commands [0.58]
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Ralph Amissah
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Copyright (C) Ralph Amissah 2007, part of SiSU documentation, License GPL 3
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information
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ebook, epublishing, electronic book, electronic publishing, electronic document, electronic citation, data structure, citation systems, search
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2002-08-28
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2002-08-28
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2007-09-16
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SiSU - Commands [0.58],<br /> Ralph Amissah
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What is SiSU?
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Description
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1. Introduction - What is SiSU?
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<b>SiSU</b> is a system for document markup, publishing (in multiple
open standard formats) and search
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<b>SiSU</b><en>1</en> is a<en>2</en> framework for document
structuring, publishing and search, comprising of (a) a lightweight
document structure and presentation markup syntax and (b) an
accompanying engine for generating standard document format outputs
from documents prepared in sisu markup syntax, which is able to produce
multiple standard outputs that (can) share a common numbering system
for the citation of text within a document.
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1. "<b>SiSU</b> information Structuring Universe" or "Structured
information, Serialized Units".<br /> also chosen for the meaning of
the Finnish term "sisu".
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2. Unix command line oriented
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<b>SiSU</b> is developed under an open source, software libre license
(GPL3). It has been developed in the context of coping with large
document sets with evolving markup related technologies, for which you
want multiple output formats, a common mechanism for
cross-output-format citation, and search.
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<b>SiSU</b> both defines a markup syntax and provides an engine that
produces open standards format outputs from documents prepared with
<b>SiSU</b> markup. From a single lightly prepared document sisu custom
builds several standard output formats which share a common (text
object) numbering system for citation of content within a document
(that also has implications for search). The sisu engine works with an
abstraction of the document's structure and content from which it is
possible to generate different forms of representation of the document.
Significantly <b>SiSU</b> markup is more sparse than html and outputs
which include html, LaTeX, landscape and portrait pdfs, Open Document
Format (ODF), all of which can be added to and updated. <b>SiSU</b> is
also able to populate SQL type databases at an object level, which
means that searches can be made with that degree of granularity.
Results of objects (primarily paragraphs and headings) can be viewed
directly in the database, or just the object numbers shown - your
search criteria is met in these documents and at these locations within
each document.
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Source document preparation and output generation is a two step
process: (i) document source is prepared, that is, marked up in sisu
markup syntax and (ii) the desired output subsequently generated by
running the sisu engine against document source. Output representations
if updated (in the sisu engine) can be generated by re-running the
engine against the prepared source. Using <b>SiSU</b> markup applied to
a document, <b>SiSU</b> custom builds various standard open output
formats including plain text, HTML, XHTML, XML, OpenDocument, LaTeX or
PDF files, and populate an SQL database with objects<en>3</en>
(equating generally to paragraph-sized chunks) so searches may be
performed and matches returned with that degree of granularity ( e.g.
your search criteria is met by these documents and at these locations
within each document). Document output formats share a common object
numbering system for locating content. This is particularly suitable
for "published" works (finalized texts as opposed to works that are
frequently changed or updated) for which it provides a fixed means of
reference of content.
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3. objects include: headings, paragraphs, verse, tables, images, but not
footnotes/endnotes which are numbered separately and tied to the object
from which they are referenced.
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In preparing a <b>SiSU</b> document you optionally provide semantic
information related to the document in a document header, and in
marking up the substantive text provide information on the structure of
the document, primarily indicating heading levels and footnotes. You
also provide information on basic text attributes where used. The rest
is automatic, sisu from this information custom builds<en>4</en> the
different forms of output requested.
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4. i.e. the html, pdf, odf outputs are each built individually and
optimised for that form of presentation, rather than for example the
html being a saved version of the odf, or the pdf being a saved version
of the html.
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<b>SiSU</b> works with an abstraction of the document based on its
structure which is comprised of its frame<en>5</en> and the
objects<en>6</en> it contains, which enables <b>SiSU</b> to represent
the document in many different ways, and to take advantage of the
strengths of different ways of presenting documents. The objects are
numbered, and these numbers can be used to provide a common base for
citing material within a document across the different output format
types. This is significant as page numbers are not suited to the
digital age, in web publishing, changing a browser's default font or
using a different browser means that text appears on different pages;
and in publishing in different formats, html, landscape and portrait
pdf etc. again page numbers are of no use to cite text in a manner that
is relevant against the different output types. Dealing with documents
at an object level together with object numbering also has implications
for search.
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5. the different heading levels
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6. units of text, primarily paragraphs and headings, also any tables,
poems, code-blocks
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One of the challenges of maintaining documents is to keep them in a
format that would allow users to use them without depending on a
proprietary software popular at the time. Consider the ease of dealing
with legacy proprietary formats today and what guarantee you have that
old proprietary formats will remain (or can be read without proprietary
software/equipment) in 15 years time, or the way the way in which html
has evolved over its relatively short span of existence. <b>SiSU</b>
provides the flexibility of outputing documents in multiple
non-proprietary open formats including html, pdf<en>7</en> and the ISO
standard ODF.<en>8</en> Whilst <b>SiSU</b> relies on software, the
markup is uncomplicated and minimalistic which guarantees that future
engines can be written to run against it. It is also easily converted
to other formats, which means documents prepared in <b>SiSU</b> can be
migrated to other document formats. Further security is provided by the
fact that the software itself, <b>SiSU</b> is available under GPL3 a
licence that guarantees that the source code will always be open, and
free as in libre which means that that code base can be used updated
and further developed as required under the terms of its license.
Another challenge is to keep up with a moving target. <b>SiSU</b>
permits new forms of output to be added as they become important, (Open
Document Format text was added in 2006), and existing output to be
updated (html has evolved and the related module has been updated
repeatedly over the years, presumably when the World Wide Web
Consortium (w3c) finalises html 5 which is currently under development,
the html module will again be updated allowing all existing documents
to be regenerated as html 5).
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7. Specification submitted by Adobe to ISO to become a full open ISO
specification <br /> <<link
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple"
xlink:href="http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7542722606.html">http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7542722606.html</link>>
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8. ISO/IEC 26300:2006
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The document formats are written to the file-system and available for
indexing by independent indexing tools, whether off the web like Google
and Yahoo or on the site like Lucene and Hyperestraier.
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<b>SiSU</b> also provides other features such as concordance files and
document content certificates, and the working against an abstraction
of document structure has further possibilities for the research and
development of other document representations, the availability of
objects is useful for example for topic maps and the commercial law
thesaurus by Vikki Rogers and Al Krtizer, together with the flexibility
of <b>SiSU</b> offers great possibilities.
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<b>SiSU</b> is primarily for published works, which can take advantage
of the citation system to reliably reference its documents. <b>SiSU</b>
works well in a complementary manner with such collaborative
technologies as Wikis, which can take advantage of and be used to
discuss the substance of content prepared in <b>SiSU</b>.
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2. How does sisu work?
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<b>SiSU</b> markup is fairly minimalistic, it consists of: a (largely
optional) document header, made up of information about the document
(such as when it was published, who authored it, and granting what
rights) and any processing instructions; and markup within the
substantive text of the document, which is related to document
structure and typeface. <b>SiSU</b> must be able to discern the
structure of a document, (text headings and their levels in relation to
each other), either from information provided in the document header or
from markup within the text (or from a combination of both). Processing
is done against an abstraction of the document comprising of
information on the document's structure and its objects,[2] which the
program serializes (providing the object numbers) and which are
assigned hash sum values based on their content. This abstraction of
information about document structure, objects, (and hash sums),
provides considerable flexibility in representing documents different
ways and for different purposes (e.g. search, document layout,
publishing, content certification, concordance etc.), and makes it
possible to take advantage of some of the strengths of established ways
of representing documents, (or indeed to create new ones).
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3. Summary of features
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sparse/minimal markup (clean utf-8 source texts). Documents are
prepared in a single UTF-8 file using a minimalistic mnemonic syntax.
Typical literature, documents like "War and Peace" require almost no
markup, and most of the headers are optional.
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markup is easily readable/parsable by the human eye, (basic markup is
simpler and more sparse than the most basic HTML), [this may also be
converted to XML representations of the same input/source document].
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markup defines document structure (this may be done once in a header
pattern-match description, or for heading levels individually); basic
text attributes (bold, italics, underscore, strike-through etc.) as
required; and semantic information related to the document (header
information, extended beyond the Dublin core and easily further
extended as required); the headers may also contain processing
instructions. <b>SiSU</b> markup is primarily an abstraction of
document structure and document metadata to permit taking advantage of
the basic strengths of existing alternative practical standard ways of
representing documents [be that browser viewing, paper publication, sql
search etc.] (html, xml, odf, latex, pdf, sql)
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for output produces reasonably elegant output of established industry
and institutionally accepted open standard formats.[3] takes advantage
of the different strengths of various standard formats for representing
documents, amongst the output formats currently supported are:
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html - both as a single scrollable text and a segmented document
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xhtml
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XML - both in sax and dom style xml structures for further
development as required
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ODF - open document format, the iso standard for document storage
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LaTeX - used to generate pdf
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pdf (via LaTeX)
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sql - population of an sql database, (at the same object level
that is used to cite text within a document)
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Also produces: concordance files; document content certificates (md5 or
sha256 digests of headings, paragraphs, images etc.) and html manifests
(and sitemaps of content). (b) takes advantage of the strengths
implicit in these very different output types, (e.g. PDFs produced
using typesetting of LaTeX, databases populated with documents at an
individual object/paragraph level, making possible granular search (and
related possibilities))
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ensuring content can be cited in a meaningful way regardless of
selected output format. Online publishing (and publishing in multiple
document formats) lacks a useful way of citing text internally within
documents (important to academics generally and to lawyers) as page
numbers are meaningless across browsers and formats. sisu seeks to
provide a common way of pinpoint the text within a document, (which can
be utilized for citation and by search engines). The outputs share a
common numbering system that is meaningful (to man and machine) across
all digital outputs whether paper, screen, or database oriented, (pdf,
HTML, xml, sqlite, postgresql), this numbering system can be used to
reference content.
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Granular search within documents. SQL databases are populated at an
object level (roughly headings, paragraphs, verse, tables) and become
searchable with that degree of granularity, the output information
provides the object/paragraph numbers which are relevant across all
generated outputs; it is also possible to look at just the matching
paragraphs of the documents in the database; [output indexing also work
well with search indexing tools like hyperestraier].
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long term maintainability of document collections in a world of
changing formats, having a very sparsely marked-up source document
base. there is a considerable degree of future-proofing, output
representations are "upgradeable", and new document formats may be
added. e.g. addition of odf (open document text) module in 2006 and in
future html5 output sometime in future, without modification of
existing prepared texts
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SQL search aside, documents are generated as required and static once
generated.
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documents produced are static files, and may be batch processed, this
needs to be done only once but may be repeated for various reasons as
desired (updated content, addition of new output formats, updated
technology document presentations/representations)
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<text class="indent_bullet">
document source (plaintext utf-8) if shared on the net may be used as
input and processed locally to produce the different document outputs
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<text class="indent_bullet">
document source may be bundled together (automatically) with associated
documents (multiple language versions or master document with
inclusions) and images and sent as a zip file called a sisupod, if
shared on the net these too may be processed locally to produce the
desired document outputs
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<text class="indent_bullet">
generated document outputs may automatically be posted to remote sites.
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<text class="indent_bullet">
for basic document generation, the only software dependency is
<b>Ruby</b>, and a few standard Unix tools (this covers plaintext,
HTML, XML, ODF, LaTeX). To use a database you of course need that, and
to convert the LaTeX generated to pdf, a latex processor like tetex or
texlive.
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<text class="indent_bullet">
as a developers tool it is flexible and extensible
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Syntax highlighting for <b>SiSU</b> markup is available for a number of
text editors.
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<b>SiSU</b> is less about document layout than about finding a way with
little markup to be able to construct an abstract representation of a
document that makes it possible to produce multiple representations of
it which may be rather different from each other and used for different
purposes, whether layout and publishing, or search of content
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i.e. to be able to take advantage from this minimal preparation
starting point of some of the strengths of rather different established
ways of representing documents for different purposes, whether for
search (relational database, or indexed flat files generated for that
purpose whether of complete documents, or say of files made up of
objects), online viewing (e.g. html, xml, pdf), or paper publication
(e.g. pdf)...
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<text class="norm">
the solution arrived at is by extracting structural information about
the document (about headings within the document) and by tracking
objects (which are serialized and also given hash values) in the manner
described. It makes possible representations that are quite different
from those offered at present. For example objects could be saved
individually and identified by their hashes, with an index of how the
objects relate to each other to form a document.
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Endnotes
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