Camera Metadata XML

Introduction

This is a set of scripts to manipulate the camera metadata in an XML form.

Generated Files

Many files can be generated from XML, such as the documentation (html/pdf), C code, Java code, and even XML itself (as a sanity check).

Dependencies

  • Python 2.7.x+
  • Beautiful Soup 4+ - HTML/XML parser, used to parse metadata_properties.xml
  • Mako 0.7+ - Template engine, needed to do file generation.
  • Markdown 2.1+ - Plain text to HTML converter, for docs formatting.
  • Tidy - Cleans up the XML/HTML files.
  • XML Lint - Validates XML against XSD schema.

Quick Setup (Ubuntu Precise):

sudo apt-get install python-mako sudo apt-get install python-bs4 sudo apt-get install python-markdown sudo apt-get install tidy sudo apt-get install libxml2-utils #xmllint

Quick Setup (MacPorts)

sudo port install py27-beautifulsoup4 sudo port install py27-mako sudo port install py27-markdown sudo port install tidy sudo port install libxml2 #xmllint