HTML service module

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This service provides a human friendly HTML access to the current topic map. HTML service name is topic. To use the service module topic, ensure the module is enabled in configuration panel of embedded HTTP server and start the embedded HTTP server. Service URL is

http://127.0.0.1:8898/topic 

This will open a HTML table visualization of the topic currently open in the Wandora application. Generated HTML pages contains links to all other related topics using this link format allowing very easy browsing of the topic map. To generate a visualization of any topic use URL parameter topic with a value of subject identifier of the topic. For example, you can generate a HTML view of topic Schema type with a request

http://127.0.0.1:8898/topic?topic=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wandora.org%2Fcore%2Fschema-type

HTML page service accepts also URL parameters si and sl. First is used to address a topic with subject identifier and latter a topic with it's subject locator. Next screen captures view examples of HTML service output.


Service topic 01.gif


Service topic 02.gif

This service uses Apache velocity template engine to generate pages. Used template files locate in templates directory. Other web resources such as images locate in static folder. If you are familiar with Wandora's API and Velocity, it should be rather easy to modify default template file.

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