[Cialug] Interesting problem [OT?]

[Tony Bibbs]

Can Selenium do this for you?

http://selenium.openqa.org/

--Tony

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Stuart Thiessen <thiessenstuart at aol.com>wrote:

> Hi, guys! I have an interesting problem. I'm doing my MA thesis on a
> writing system for Sign Languages called SignWriting (www.signwriting.org).
> 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).
>
> Anyway, my technical challenge is that the organization developing this
> writing system has published a PHP database of the symbols at:
> http://www.signbank.org/swis/data.php?subset=&bs_code=*
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks
>
> Stuart
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