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Contributing New or Updated DataNOTE: This site is no longer being updated; it is up for "Adoption" to anyone who would like to take overIn order to make it easy and efficient to keep this Guide up to date, there is now a mechanism by which vendors and other interested users will be able to directly contributed updated data, in a form ready to put on this site. To send in updata data for a product already here:The process is simple:
To send in data for new product to add:Follow the same process as the above, but use one of the XML files for another product as a starting point. Be sure to remove all bits of data about the product whose file you started with. The XML data format
How the HTML Is Generated:The BDE Alternatives Guide is generated using XML and XSLT. I use a Python script (one of my favorite languages for "glue") to loop over all of the XML files and process each through an XSL engine to produce an HTML file. In the process, the summary data is gathered and placed in another XML file, which is transformed using other XSL templates to create the summary pages. It was a bit of an adventure figuring out how to acheive those groups in XSLT, but was worth the effort. Help Wanted:I'm looking for volunteers to help with several aspects of this:
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