Re: [docbook-apps] Generate SCORM from DocBook

[Sasha Philippov <philya@gmail.com>]

Yes, the Test Suite is the set of htmls with applets, and Sample RTE
is java servlet, so there is no use of that exe's except installation,
that's poor. Besides, my workstation is also non-windows, so I test on
other machine. But SCORM is widely adopted: open source examples are
Reload tools and open LMS's like Moodle and ILIAS.

Here we have the page of Carnegie Melon DL Lab:
http://www.lsal.cmu.edu/adl/scorm/tools/reload/index.html
They propose several versions of Reload Editor for SCORM 2004. I've
tried this one: "Reload Editor 2004 v1.3.2 Beta2_c". With it you can
open a package and then press preview. And there is no exe's inside
that zip. Run with java - jar 'Reload Editor 2004 v1.3.2 Beta2_c.jar'.

Sasha

On 22 Бер 2006, at 14:22, Michael(tm) Smith wrote:

> Sasha Philippov <philya@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Yes, because converter generates SCORM 1.3 aka 2004 packages.
>>
>> I test with ADL's conformance test suite and sample runtime
>> environment. See: http://www.adlnet.gov/scorm/
>
> That unfortunately seems to be provided only in the form of a
> Windows executable file.
>
> After a look through the ADL site, I get the sense that the ADL
> people have a very Windows-centric view of the world -- to the
> point where they don't seem to consider users on other platforms.
> The above page doesn't even contain any description at all of the
> platform requirements. I had to download the whole 20Mb zip file
> and unzip to find out the contents were a single *.exe file.
>
> And reading through some of the online docs, I see the subgeniuses
> at ADL seem to have hard-coded it to work only with Microsoft Access.
>
> Anyway, I came across the following:
>
>   http://www.adlnet.gov/scorm/articles/12.cfm
>
> That page indicates that the ADL sample runtime is actually
> Java-based and SQL-based at its core, and that a developer named
> Gabor Ercsenyi has managed to wade through the ADL code (which
> sounds from his description to have a not particularly brillian
> design) and made a version of it that's platform-independent and
> database-independent. Cheers to him for doing that.
> Unfortunately, there's no download link there for that version.
> Any idea of somewhere where it might be publicly downloadable?
>
> And it seems like the default distribution from ADL really ought
> to be the platform-independent one. (Do you know any of the ADL
> people? Being a US-government-funded project, I'd expect that ADL
> ought to have to follow some kind of principle about designing and
> providing their deliverables in a platform-independent form.)
>
> Anyway, are you aware of any other player/viewer I can use to run
> on Linux to view your example DocBook-based package.zip?
>
>> I'm planning to add support for 1.2 to the converter in the close
>> future.
>
> Cool. Thanks by the way for having made the current version usable
> on non-Windows platforms. If looks like a great application, but
> if you had followed the ADL lead an made it Windows-only, I would
> have never known because I would have not taken any time to
> download and try it. But now that I've got it, I just hope I find
> some app I can use to actually view and run your
> generated-from-DocBook sample file.
>
>   --Mike