XML::Grammar::Screenplay - CPAN distribution implementing an XML grammar for screenplays.
Version 0.9.2
See XML::Grammar::Screenplay::FromProto, XML::Grammar::Screenplay::ToDocBook and XML::Grammar::Screenplay::ToHTML.
XML::Grammar::Screenplay is a Perl module for:
The best way to use it non-programatically is using XML::Grammar::Screenplay::App::FromProto, XML::Grammar::Screenplay::App::ToDocBook and XML::Grammar::Screenplay::App::ToHTML, which are modules implementing command line applications for their processing.
The rest of this page will document the syntax of the custom textual format.
Scenes are placed in XML-like tags of <section> ... </section> or abbreviated as <s> ... </s>. Opening tags in the format may have attributes whose keys are plaintext and whose values are surrounded by double quotes. (Single-quotes are not supported).
<section> ... </section>
<s> ... </s>
The scene tag must have an id attribute (for anchors, etc.) and could have an optional title attribute. If the title is not specified, it will default to the ID.
id
title
Scenes may be nested. There cannot be any sayings or descriptions (see below) except inside scenes.
Text is any of:
Regular text
Supported tags are <b> for bold text, <i> for italics, <a href="..."> for hyperlinks, and an empty <br /> tag for line-breaks.
<b>
<i>
<a href="...">
<br />
The text format supports SGML-like entities such as &, <, " and all other entities that are supported by HTML::Entities.
&
<
"
Text between square brackets ([ ... ]) is reserved for descriptions or inline descriptions (see below).
[ ... ]
The first paragraph when a character talks starts with the name of the character followed by a colon (:) and the rest of the text. Like this:
:
David: Goliath, I'm going to kill you! You'll see - I will.
If a character says more than one paragraph, the next paragraph should start with any number of "+"-signs followed by a colon:
David: Goliath, I'm going to kill you! You'll see - I will. ++++: I will sling you and bing you till infinity!
Descriptions that are not part of saying start with a [ at the first character of a line and extend till the next ]. They can span several paragraphs.
[
]
There are also internal descriptions to the saying which are placed inside the paragraph of the saying and describe what happens while the character talks.
<s id="top"> <s id="david_and_goliath"> [David and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath">Goliath</a> are standing by each other.] David: I will kill you. Goliath: no way, you little idiot! David: yes way! ++++: In the name of <a href="http://real-allah.tld/">Allah, the <b>merciful</b>, real merciful</a>, I will show you the [sarcastically] power of my sling. ++: I shall sling you and bing you till infinity. [David takes his sling.] Goliath: I'm still <a href="http://wait.tld/">waiting</a>. David: so you are. [David puts a stone in his sling and shoots Goliath. He hits.] David: as is written in the wikipedia [See <a href="http://wiki.tld/">the Wiki site</a> for more information], you are now dead, having been shot with my sling. </s> </s>
Other examples can be found in the t/data directory, and here:
t/data
The One with the Fountainhead
http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/TOWTF/
Humanity - The Movie
http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/humanity/
Star Trek - "We The Living Dead"
http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Star-Trek/We-the-Living-Dead/
When trying to convert the well-formed text to XML, one will often encounter an obscure "Parse Error". This is caused by Parse::RecDescent, which is used for parsing. The best way I found to deal with it is to gradually eliminate parts of the document until the offending markup is isolated.
In the future, I plan on writing a custom parser that will provide better diagnostics and will hopefully also be faster.
Shlomi Fish, http://www.shlomifish.org/.
Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-xml-grammar-fiction at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=XML-Grammar-Fiction. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
bug-xml-grammar-fiction at rt.cpan.org
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.
perldoc XML::Grammar::Screenplay
You can also look for information at:
AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation
http://annocpan.org/dist/XML-Grammar-Fiction
CPAN Ratings
http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/XML-Grammar-Fiction
RT: CPAN's request tracker
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=XML-Grammar-Fiction
Search CPAN
http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-Grammar-Fiction/
Copyright 2007 Shlomi Fish, all rights reserved.
This program is released under the following license: MIT X11.
To install XML::Grammar::Fiction, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm XML::Grammar::Fiction
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install XML::Grammar::Fiction
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.