Can Selenium do this for you?<br><br><a href="http://selenium.openqa.org/">http://selenium.openqa.org/</a><br><br>--Tony<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Stuart Thiessen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thiessenstuart@aol.com">thiessenstuart@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi, guys! I have an interesting problem. I'm doing my MA thesis on a writing system for Sign Languages called SignWriting (<a href="http://www.signwriting.org" target="_blank">www.signwriting.org</a>). I'm doing an analysis of the writing system and looking at how the system works with an eye how one day it could be incorporated into Unicode. I hope that this writing system will eventually be available in regular software products so Deaf people like me can have that as a way to write in our sign language (there are at least 200 sign languages in the world and possibly as many as 400-1000).<br>
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Anyway, my technical challenge is that the organization developing this writing system has published a PHP database of the symbols at: <a href="http://www.signbank.org/swis/data.php?subset=&bs_code=*" target="_blank">http://www.signbank.org/swis/data.php?subset=&bs_code=*</a><br>
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I need to get a offline dump of each of the basesymbol child pages listed on that page. I can't do a simple download of the page as HTML because the image file showing the symbol is actually a link to a script that finds the right symbol and plugs it in, so when I use programs like wget, a broken link for the symbol image appears when I try to look at it offline.<br>
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Then I tried to save each as a PDF, but that will take a lot of time to do manually for 639 pages. I haven't figured out a way to have Applescript or Python or other scripting language to create PDF documents for me.<br>
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So, I thought if any of you would have a suggestion on how I can automate this process. I do forsee the possibility that if they were to add new handshapes or other symbols in the systems, that it would be nice to let this automated system re-do the offline dump.<br>
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Thanks<br>
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Stuart<br>
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