ARIS VIRTUAL MUSEUM PROTOTYPE


This is a prototype demonstration of the technology used for ARIS.

You can run the demo by typing

./museum.sh

which will produce HTML-files from the shipped museum.xml,
using the XSL-files for the formating of the different rooms,
showcases and artefacts.
The museum.xml file represents a database, where our program
could generate XML-files for each room. In this version, only a single
XML for all rooms is used, separate files for each room/showcase/artefact
are also possible. The XML-input-file is parsed, to get each
component, then the XSL-file is applied, and the resulting HTML
is writen to a file.

To browse the resulting virtual mueseum, start your favourite
webbrowser with the file "room1.html" (e.g. 'lynx room1.html')

PLATFORM:
	any java plattform; the script will only run under UNIX.

PREREQUISITES:
	you need Java installed, with the 'java' in your PATH.
	If running under Java 1.1.x, you should have the
	environment-variable CLASSPATH set to the classes.zip
	of the java-installation
	(e.g. CLASSPATH=/usr/local/sw/jdk117_v1a/lib/classes.zip).

BUGS:
	The current prototype is rather slow (no performance tuning by now!),
	and the scripts also renders rooms which do not exist in the
	xml file, which only contains a back-link.

TROUBLESHOOTING:
If the script produces error-messages, check the following:

  1.) Are you in the same directory as the script? If not, the script
      will fail.

  2.) Do you have the right CLASSPATH? See PREREQUISITES.

  3.) is the Java VM in you PATH? Try 'java -version'.