BookPlugin

Creates multi-level document from document containing <TOC> level tags. Metadata for each section is taken from any other tags on the same line as the <TOC>. e.g. <Title>xxxx</Title> sets Title metadata. Everything else between TOC tags is treated as simple html (i.e. no HTMLPlugin type of processing is done, such as processing html links). Expects input files to have a .hb file extension by default (this can be changed by adding a -process_exp option); a file with the same name as the hb file but a .jpg extension is taken as the cover image (jpg files are blocked by this plugin). BookPlugin is a simplification (and extension) of the HBPlugin used by the Humanity Development Library collections. BookPlugin is faster as it expects the input files to be cleaner (The input to the HDL collections contains lots of excess html tags around <TOC> tags, uses <I> tags to specify images, and simply takes all text appearing after a <TOC> tag and on the same line as Title metadata). If you're marking up documents to be displayed in the same way as the HDL collections, use this plugin instead of HBPlugin.

The following table lists all of the configuration options available for BookPlugin.

OptionDescriptionValue
BookPlugin Options
process_exp A perl regular expression to match against filenames. Matching filenames will be processed by this plugin. For example, using '(?i).html?\$' matches all documents ending in .htm or .html (case-insensitive). Default: (?i)\.hb$
block_exp Files matching this regular expression will be blocked from being passed to any later plugins in the list. Default: \.jpg$
Options Inherited from AutoExtractMetadata
first Comma separated list of numbers of characters to extract from the start of the text into a set of metadata fields called 'FirstN', where N is the size. For example, the values "3,5,7" will extract the first 3, 5 and 7 characters into metadata fields called "First3", "First5" and "First7".
Options Inherited from AcronymExtractor
extract_acronyms Extract acronyms from within text and set as metadata.
markup_acronyms Add acronym metadata into document text.
Options Inherited from KeyphraseExtractor
extract_keyphrases Extract keyphrases automatically with Kea (default settings).
extract_keyphrases_kea4 Extract keyphrases automatically with Kea 4.0 (default settings). Kea 4.0 is a new version of Kea that has been developed for controlled indexing of documents in the domain of agriculture.
extract_keyphrase_options Options for keyphrase extraction with Kea. For example: mALIWEB - use ALIWEB extraction model; n5 - extract 5 keyphrase;, eGBK - use GBK encoding.
Options Inherited from EmailAddressExtractor
extract_email Extract email addresses as metadata.
Options Inherited from DateExtractor
extract_historical_years Extract time-period information from historical documents. This is stored as metadata with the document. There is a search interface for this metadata, which you can include in your collection by adding the statement, "format QueryInterface DateSearch" to your collection configuration file.
maximum_year The maximum historical date to be used as metadata (in a Common Era date, such as 1950). Default: 2013
maximum_century The maximum named century to be extracted as historical metadata (e.g. 14 will extract all references up to the 14th century). Default: -1
no_bibliography Do not try to block bibliographic dates when extracting historical dates.
Options Inherited from GISExtractor
extract_placenames Extract placenames from within text and set as metadata. Requires GIS extension to Greenstone.
gazetteer Gazetteer to use to extract placenames from within text and set as metadata. Requires GIS extension to Greenstone.
place_list When extracting placements, include list of placenames at start of the document. Requires GIS extension to Greenstone.
Options Inherited from BasePlugin
process_exp A perl regular expression to match against filenames. Matching filenames will be processed by this plugin. For example, using '(?i).html?\$' matches all documents ending in .htm or .html (case-insensitive).
no_blocking Don't do any file blocking. Any associated files (e.g. images in a web page) will be added to the collection as documents in their own right.
block_exp Files matching this regular expression will be blocked from being passed to any later plugins in the list.
store_original_file Save the original source document as an associated file. Note this is already done for files like PDF, Word etc. This option is only useful for plugins that don't already store a copy of the original file.
associate_ext Causes files with the same root filename as the document being processed by the plugin AND a filename extension from the comma separated list provided by this argument to be associated with the document being processed rather than handled as a separate list.
associate_tail_re A regular expression to match filenames against to find associated files. Used as a more powerful alternative to associate_ext.
OIDtype The method to use when generating unique identifiers for each document. Default: auto
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OIDmetadata Specifies the metadata element that hold's the document's unique identifier, for use with -OIDtype=assigned. Default: dc.Identifier
no_cover_image Do not look for a prefix.jpg file (where prefix is the same prefix as the file being processed) to associate as a cover image.
filename_encoding The encoding of the source file filenames. Default: auto
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file_rename_method The method to be used in renaming the copy of the imported file and associated files. Default: url
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