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 round-trip validity check).

Dependencies

• Python 2.7.x+
• Beautiful Soup 4+ - HTML/XML parser, used to parse metadata_definitions.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 (Debian Rodete):

NOTE: Debian (and most Linux distros) no longer package Python 2. Python 3 dependencies are listed below.

sudo apt install python3-mako \
                 python3-bs4 \
                 python3-markdown \
                 tidy \
                 libxml2-utils

Quick Usage:

1. Modify or add to metadata_definition.xml
2. Execute metadata-generate
3. Run m ds-docs to make sure the javadoc is correctly generated
4. Commit and Upload the repos listed at the end of metadata-generate