On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:01 AM, A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> On 19 Mar 2008, at 21:27, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
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> > Anyway, this does not really change much about the main reasons not to
> > use a search group, as also expanded on by Adam. If you look at
> > BDSKZoomGroupServer or other search group severs you will see that
> > parsing is the least of the worries for implementing a search group
> > server (in fact, they don't even do any parsing themselves).
>
> What are they briefly dealing with? My initial thought indeed wasn't
> at all that these servers should do complicated parsing tasks, rather
> that they were quite generically relying on some types of queries, so
> that I could provide these queries by another class acting like a
> bridge between DBLP and the server class. Do you see what I mean? If I
> understand correctly, the problem is that these search group servers
> are not so generic, right?
>
The search group server classes are indeed not generic. The way they work
and update very much depend on the type. E.g. z39.50 groups are
asynchronous, while pubmed groups are synchronous, that make a huge
difference.
>
> > I think it should be pretty easy to change the google scholar scraper
> > to a scraper for this site. Some hints:
> > - you probably want to look for links with class="rec", using XPaths
> > (change the BibTeXLinkNodePath variable).
> > - instead of downloading the linked page using NSURLDownload, you
> > probably want to do something like [[NSXMLDocument alloc]
> > initWithContentsOfURL:btURL options:0 error:&error], and use
> > nodesForXPath:error: to get the bibtex string.
>
> Thanks, though it doesn't really talk to me at the moment :)
>
> A
>
>
It should make sense if you look at the code.
Christiaan
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