CGI Interface

If you want to use this tool from your web site, here is the CGI Interface: (Note: You need to use attribute name/value pair: enctype="multipart/form-data" within the form tag because the tool was to designed to allow local file uploading even if you do not use this feature)

• URL: http://taporware.mcmaster.ca/cgi-bin/prototype/hacronym.cgi

Here are the parameters:

Use Acronym TAPoRware Tool in Your Web Page

You can add a button in your web page to extract text contained in specified HTML tags in that page by call TAPoRware cgi script.

Here is the code for the button:

<form method="post" name="htmlForm" enctype="multipart/form-data" target="_blank" action="http://taporware.mcmaster.ca/~taporware/cgi-bin/prototype/hacronym.cgi" onsubmit="document.htmlForm.htmlurl.value=document.location.href">

<input type="hidden" name="source" value="url" />

<input type="hidden" name="htmlurl" />

<input type="hidden" name="listdisp" value="2" />

<input type="submit" name="doit" value="Get Acronyms" />

</form>

Web Service Interface

Taporware provides web services to any non-benefit organizations. here is the taporware web services infomation:

• Endpoint URL: http://taporware.mcmaster.ca:9982
• Service URI: http://taporware.mcmaster.ca/~taporware/webservice
• Service Method: acronymFinder
• parameters:
  • textInput -- any text string
  • outFormat -- Output format. Currently only HTML (value: 1) format is implemented

Pseudocode

• Get the source text from internet or form user's local disk. If the source text is HTML or XML format, strip off all the tags and unrelated stuff (javascript, css, etc.)
• Identify the acronyms with the 100 characters before it
• Test if the the 100 characters matches the acronym.
• Format the output.

Way of Using

• Enter a valid URL in the URL field or enter a local path to upload the source text. If source text can be HTML, XML or plain text
• Click the submit button.

Acronym Finder

Description

-- LianYan - 01 Jun 2007