Comments on: Script to Download 11gR2 Documentation http://www.antognini.ch/2009/09/script-to-download-11gr2-documentation/ Thu, 17 May 2012 06:56:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ludovic http://www.antognini.ch/2009/09/script-to-download-11gr2-documentation/#comment-273 Ludovic Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:09:01 +0000 http://antognini.ch/?p=673#comment-273 very useful, thanks for the sharing. very useful, thanks for the sharing.

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]]> By: Brett http://www.antognini.ch/2009/09/script-to-download-11gr2-documentation/#comment-271 Brett Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:37:41 +0000 http://antognini.ch/?p=673#comment-271 I have created a shell script to download and rename all the 10g2 PDF docs - it's available <a href="https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVxdHiED5_YJZGN0ZzI0bXRfMWZjYm1wOWY1&hl=en" rel="nofollow">here</a> (tested on Redhat Linux). Thanks for the XSL tutorial Chris ;-) It's certainly a lot easier than trying to remember the arcane syntax of regexps! I have created a shell script to download and rename all the 10g2 PDF docs – it’s available here (tested on Redhat Linux).

Thanks for the XSL tutorial Chris ;-) It’s certainly a lot easier than trying to remember the arcane syntax of regexps!

]]> By: Christian Antognini http://www.antognini.ch/2009/09/script-to-download-11gr2-documentation/#comment-270 Christian Antognini Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:38:26 +0000 http://antognini.ch/?p=673#comment-270 For the people like Brett that are interested in doing some similar with other versions of the documentation, here some details on how I generated the script: 1) opened the master book list in Firefox 2) selected the table containing the links to the PDF and executed "View Selection Source" 3) copied/pasted the table body in a file named doc1.xml 4) removed some garbage with the following command: grep -e tbody -e to_pdf doc1.xml | sed 's/%2F///' > doc2.xml 5) applied the XSL transformation that you find below to the file named doc2.xml (I used <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/xmlnotepad" rel="nofollow">XML Notepad 2007</a> for that) 6) copied/pasted the output in another file and did some editing (e.g. removed duplicates of mkdir, changed the name of 3 files having a too long name...) HTH Chris <pre> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8"/> <xsl:template match="/tbody"> <xsl:for-each select="a"> mkdir <xsl:value-of select="substring-before(substring-after(@href,'='),'.')"/> <br/> </xsl:for-each> <xsl:for-each select="a"> wget -nv http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(substring-after(@href,'='),'&')"/> -O "<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(substring-after(@href,'='),'.')"/>/<xsl:value-of select="translate(substring-after(@title,'PDF file of '),'*/','')"/>.pdf" <br/> </xsl:for-each> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> </pre> For the people like Brett that are interested in doing some similar with other versions of the documentation, here some details on how I generated the script:

1) opened the master book list in Firefox
2) selected the table containing the links to the PDF and executed “View Selection Source”
3) copied/pasted the table body in a file named doc1.xml
4) removed some garbage with the following command: grep -e tbody -e to_pdf doc1.xml | sed ‘s/%2F///’ > doc2.xml
5) applied the XSL transformation that you find below to the file named doc2.xml (I used XML Notepad 2007 for that)
6) copied/pasted the output in another file and did some editing (e.g. removed duplicates of mkdir, changed the name of 3 files having a too long name…)

HTH
Chris

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>



  
    mkdir 
    
  
  
    wget -nv
         http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/
         -O "/.pdf"
]]> By: ricky http://www.antognini.ch/2009/09/script-to-download-11gr2-documentation/#comment-269 ricky Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:43:46 +0000 http://antognini.ch/?p=673#comment-269 this is pretty cool and useful. thanks for the sharing. this is pretty cool and useful.

thanks for the sharing.

]]> By: Philipp http://www.antognini.ch/2009/09/script-to-download-11gr2-documentation/#comment-268 Philipp Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:15:52 +0000 http://antognini.ch/?p=673#comment-268 Ciao Chris/Dani, Cool stuff, thanks! Runs perfectly on my Mac ;-) Ciao Chris/Dani,
Cool stuff, thanks! Runs perfectly on my Mac ;-)

]]> By: Christian Antognini http://www.antognini.ch/2009/09/script-to-download-11gr2-documentation/#comment-267 Christian Antognini Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:35:04 +0000 http://antognini.ch/?p=673#comment-267 Hi Brett Thank you for the feedback! I corrected the script. BTW, tomorrow I should be able to post the XLS code... So, stay tuned ;-) Cheers, Chris Hi Brett

Thank you for the feedback! I corrected the script. BTW, tomorrow I should be able to post the XLS code… So, stay tuned ;-)

Cheers,
Chris

]]> By: Brett http://www.antognini.ch/2009/09/script-to-download-11gr2-documentation/#comment-266 Brett Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:21:04 +0000 http://antognini.ch/?p=673#comment-266 Dani's script has a minor problem - the word "Reference" has been corrupted to "Refemvce". Thus many titles of reference documents are corrupted. A corrected version can be found <a href="https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVxdHiED5_YJZGN0ZzI0bXRfMHQ4Njk5eGZ2&hl=en" rel="nofollow">here</a> Dani’s script has a minor problem – the word “Reference” has been corrupted to “Refemvce”. Thus many titles of reference documents are corrupted. A corrected version can be found here

]]> By: Brett http://www.antognini.ch/2009/09/script-to-download-11gr2-documentation/#comment-265 Brett Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:23:13 +0000 http://antognini.ch/?p=673#comment-265 Christian, Thanks, this is great. If you are prepared to share your XSL code, I would create a similar script for 10g2 and then share it with others. Christian, Thanks, this is great. If you are prepared to share your XSL code, I would create a similar script for 10g2 and then share it with others.

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