Generate SCORM from DocBook

Yes, because converter generates SCORM 1.3 aka 2004
packages.

I test with ADL's conformance test suite and sample runtime
 
environment. See: http://www.adlnet.gov/sc
orm/

I'm planning to add support for 1.2 to the converter in the
close  
future.

Thanks,
Sasha.

On 22 Бер 2006, at 11:35, Michael(tm) Smith wrote:

> Sasha Philippov <philyagmail.com> writes:
>
>> Thank you for your response. 1.4 was not supported
due to simple  
>> build
>> configuration mistake. I've recompiled converter
to support 1.3+
>> JRE's.
>>
>> Please, check the new version out:  http://pyxx.org/DocBoo
k2SCORM/ 
>> download.html
>
> Thanks -- I downloaded the new version and ran the
build without
> any errors.
>
> I also downloaded the Reload Project Scorm 1.2 player:
>
>   http://www.r
eload.ac.uk/scormplayer.html
>
> And I tried running your sample/package.zip package
with that. But
> it gives me an error message:
>
>   Manifest file does not appear to be Scorm 1.2
conformant
>
> But I can't tell whether it's just not finding the
imsmanifest.xml
> file in your package, or whether it's finding it but
then running
> some validity check on it which it's not passing.
>
> Any ideas? Are there any other SCORM players available
that run
> under Linux? What player do you do your testing with?
>
>   --Mike


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Sasha Philippov <philyagmail.com> writes:

> Yes, because converter generates SCORM 1.3 aka 2004
packages.
> 
> I test with ADL's conformance test suite and sample
runtime  
> environment. See: http://www.adlnet.gov/sc
orm/

That unfortunately seems to be provided only in the form of
a
Windows executable file.

After a look through the ADL site, I get the sense that the
ADL
people have a very Windows-centric view of the world -- to
the
point where they don't seem to consider users on other
platforms.
The above page doesn't even contain any description at all
of the
platform requirements. I had to download the whole 20Mb zip
file
and unzip to find out the contents were a single *.exe file.

And reading through some of the online docs, I see the
subgeniuses
at ADL seem to have hard-coded it to work only with
Microsoft Access.

Anyway, I came across the following:

  http://ww
w.adlnet.gov/scorm/articles/12.cfm

That page indicates that the ADL sample runtime is actually
Java-based and SQL-based at its core, and that a developer
named
Gabor Ercsenyi has managed to wade through the ADL code
(which
sounds from his description to have a not particularly
brillian
design) and made a version of it that's
platform-independent and
database-independent. Cheers to him for doing that.
Unfortunately, there's no download link there for that
version.
Any idea of somewhere where it might be publicly
downloadable?

And it seems like the default distribution from ADL really
ought
to be the platform-independent one. (Do you know any of the
ADL
people? Being a US-government-funded project, I'd expect
that ADL
ought to have to follow some kind of principle about
designing and
providing their deliverables in a platform-independent
form.)

Anyway, are you aware of any other player/viewer I can use
to run
on Linux to view your example DocBook-based package.zip?

> I'm planning to add support for 1.2 to the converter
in the close  
> future.

Cool. Thanks by the way for having made the current version
usable
on non-Windows platforms. If looks like a great application,
but
if you had followed the ADL lead an made it Windows-only, I
would
have never known because I would have not taken any time to
download and try it. But now that I've got it, I just hope
I find
some app I can use to actually view and run your
generated-from-DocBook sample file.

  --Mike

Yes, the Test Suite is the set of htmls with applets, and
Sample RTE
is java servlet, so there is no use of that exe's except
installation,
that's poor. Besides, my workstation is also non-windows,
so I test on
other machine. But SCORM is widely adopted: open source
examples are
Reload tools and open LMS's like Moodle and ILIAS.

Here we have the page of Carnegie Melon DL Lab:
http://www.lsal.cmu.edu/adl/scorm/tools/reload/index.ht
ml
They propose several versions of Reload Editor for SCORM
2004. I've
tried this one: "Reload Editor 2004 v1.3.2
Beta2_c". With it you can
open a package and then press preview. And there is no
exe's inside
that zip. Run with java - jar 'Reload Editor 2004 v1.3.2
Beta2_c.jar'.

Sasha

On 22 Бер 2006, at 14:22, Michael(tm) Smith wrote:

> Sasha Philippov <philyagmail.com> writes:
>
>> Yes, because converter generates SCORM 1.3 aka 2004
packages.
>>
>> I test with ADL's conformance test suite and
sample runtime
>> environment. See: http://www.adlnet.gov/sc
orm/
>
> That unfortunately seems to be provided only in the
form of a
> Windows executable file.
>
> After a look through the ADL site, I get the sense that
the ADL
> people have a very Windows-centric view of the world --
to the
> point where they don't seem to consider users on other
platforms.
> The above page doesn't even contain any description at
all of the
> platform requirements. I had to download the whole 20Mb
zip file
> and unzip to find out the contents were a single *.exe
file.
>
> And reading through some of the online docs, I see the
subgeniuses
> at ADL seem to have hard-coded it to work only with
Microsoft Access.
>
> Anyway, I came across the following:
>
>   http://ww
w.adlnet.gov/scorm/articles/12.cfm
>
> That page indicates that the ADL sample runtime is
actually
> Java-based and SQL-based at its core, and that a
developer named
> Gabor Ercsenyi has managed to wade through the ADL code
(which
> sounds from his description to have a not particularly
brillian
> design) and made a version of it that's
platform-independent and
> database-independent. Cheers to him for doing that.
> Unfortunately, there's no download link there for that
version.
> Any idea of somewhere where it might be publicly
downloadable?
>
> And it seems like the default distribution from ADL
really ought
> to be the platform-independent one. (Do you know any of
the ADL
> people? Being a US-government-funded project, I'd
expect that ADL
> ought to have to follow some kind of principle about
designing and
> providing their deliverables in a platform-independent
form.)
>
> Anyway, are you aware of any other player/viewer I can
use to run
> on Linux to view your example DocBook-based
package.zip?
>
>> I'm planning to add support for 1.2 to the
converter in the close
>> future.
>
> Cool. Thanks by the way for having made the current
version usable
> on non-Windows platforms. If looks like a great
application, but
> if you had followed the ADL lead an made it
Windows-only, I would
> have never known because I would have not taken any
time to
> download and try it. But now that I've got it, I just
hope I find
> some app I can use to actually view and run your
> generated-from-DocBook sample file.
>
>   --Mike


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Now the DocBook2SCORM Converter supports both SCORM 1.2 and
SCORM 2004.

Please, check out: http:
//www.pyxx.org/DocBook2SCORM/overview.html

Thanks,
Sasha.

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