On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Douglas <dug.armad...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,

> This is my third post in a row, but I promise that I am not trying to
> dominate this mailing list.

> I suspect that it might be David who is first to reply and, so I would
> like to thank him for all the help he has already provided. (Did you
> see my reply to your advice on
> http://groups.google.co.uk/group/viper-toolkit/browse_thread/thread/d...
> ?)

> Okay, here is my new question. I would like to import ViPER xml data
> into Matlab. In theory, I could use Java calls from Matlab with the
> ViPER api. Unfortunately, I am working in a Windows environment and I
> assume that I will have to compile the specific Java in Windows for
> this purpose - correct me if I am wrong.  I have downloaded the full
> source and so would like advice on the compilation process, in
> Windows, for the api part of the code. To get a clue,  I have had a
> look at the make file in the api directory but don't understand it.

> I have no Java experience but guess that my Visual Studio has hooks to
> a Java compiler - it seems to recognise the Java source files.

> Thank you,

> Douglas

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> Matlab supports native access to java, so you should be able to point
> your copy of matlab to load all of the .jar files in the viper-light
> distribution and access them that way. For an overview of how to add
> java classes to your matlab instance, check out here:

> http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/index.html?/acc...

> You will have to add most of the .jar files in the viper-light package
> available.

> On the viper web site, there  is some minimal documentation, for some
> ideas about how to write scripts that read or write viper data files.
> There are two formats, the .xgtf xml format, and an older,
> easier-on-the-eyes plain text format (you can convert between the two
> with the xml2gtf and gtf2xml tools). The main difference, other than
> the way they look, is that the xml format supports describing multiple
> media files from a single metadata file.

> http://viper-toolkit.sourceforge.net/docs/scripting/

> If you want to actually build the thing, I use Eclipse, IBM's free
> java IDE. However, I'd suggest just munging with the files directly.
> I'll see if I can upload a generated api documentation file somehow,
> which would make it a lot easier to use the API for reading and
> writing viper metadata files.

> David Mihalcik

> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Douglas <dug.armad...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> > Hi,

> > This is my third post in a row, but I promise that I am not trying to
> > dominate this mailing list.

> > I suspect that it might be David who is first to reply and, so I would
> > like to thank him for all the help he has already provided. (Did you
> > see my reply to your advice on
> >http://groups.google.co.uk/group/viper-toolkit/browse_thread/thread/d...
> > ?)

> > Okay, here is my new question. I would like to import ViPER xml data
> > into Matlab. In theory, I could use Java calls from Matlab with the
> > ViPER api. Unfortunately, I am working in a Windows environment and I
> > assume that I will have to compile the specific Java in Windows for
> > this purpose - correct me if I am wrong.  I have downloaded the full
> > source and so would like advice on the compilation process, in
> > Windows, for the api part of the code. To get a clue,  I have had a
> > look at the make file in the api directory but don't understand it.

> > I have no Java experience but guess that my Visual Studio has hooks to
> > a Java compiler - it seems to recognise the Java source files.

> > Thank you,

> > Douglas

>> import javax.xml.parsers.*
>> docBuilder = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance()
>> docElement = docBuilder.newDocumentBuilder().parse('test.xgtf').getDocumentElement()
>> parser = viper.api.impl.ViperParser
>> parser.parseDoc(docElement)

> I've uploaded the javadocs here:

> http://github.com/dmihalcik/viper-toolkit/downloads

> From the scripting viper documentation, to load a file, you'll have to
> do something like this:

>  -- first, import the necessary classes.. I might be missing a few.

> import java.io.*
> import javax.xml.*
> import viper.api.*
> import viper.api.impl.*

>  -- next, load the file

> FileInputStream inFile = new FileInputStream ("gt.xml");
> Element documentEl = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance()
>                                            .newDocumentBuilder()
>                                            .parse(inFile)
>                                            .getDocumentElement();
> inFile.close();
> ViperData newFile = ViperParser.parseDoc (documentEl);

>  - finally, read data from newFile

> for (Descriptor d : newFile.getSourcefile
> ("yourFile.mpg").getDescriptors()) {
>     // do something with the descriptor

> }

> I don't have a copy of matlab handy, and i don't quite remember how to
> translate java syntax into matlab syntax.

> On Sep 11, 11:51 pm, David Mihalcik <kraka...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Matlab supports native access to java, so you should be able to point
> > your copy of matlab to load all of the .jar files in the viper-light
> > distribution and access them that way. For an overview of how to add
> > java classes to your matlab instance, check out here:

> >http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/index.html?/acc...

> > You will have to add most of the .jar files in the viper-light package
> > available.

> > On the viper web site, there  is some minimal documentation, for some
> > ideas about how to write scripts that read or write viper data files.
> > There are two formats, the .xgtf xml format, and an older,
> > easier-on-the-eyes plain text format (you can convert between the two
> > with the xml2gtf and gtf2xml tools). The main difference, other than
> > the way they look, is that the xml format supports describing multiple
> > media files from a single metadata file.

> >http://viper-toolkit.sourceforge.net/docs/scripting/

> > If you want to actually build the thing, I use Eclipse, IBM's free
> > java IDE. However, I'd suggest just munging with the files directly.
> > I'll see if I can upload a generated api documentation file somehow,
> > which would make it a lot easier to use the API for reading and
> > writing viper metadata files.

> > David Mihalcik

> > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Douglas <dug.armad...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> > > Hi,

> > > This is my third post in a row, but I promise that I am not trying to
> > > dominate this mailing list.

> > > I suspect that it might be David who is first to reply and, so I would
> > > like to thank him for all the help he has already provided. (Did you
> > > see my reply to your advice on
> > >http://groups.google.co.uk/group/viper-toolkit/browse_thread/thread/d...
> > > ?)

> > > Okay, here is my new question. I would like to import ViPER xml data
> > > into Matlab. In theory, I could use Java calls from Matlab with the
> > > ViPER api. Unfortunately, I am working in a Windows environment and I
> > > assume that I will have to compile the specific Java in Windows for
> > > this purpose - correct me if I am wrong.  I have downloaded the full
> > > source and so would like advice on the compilation process, in
> > > Windows, for the api part of the code. To get a clue,  I have had a
> > > look at the make file in the api directory but don't understand it.

> > > I have no Java experience but guess that my Visual Studio has hooks to
> > > a Java compiler - it seems to recognise the Java source files.

> > > Thank you,

> > > Douglas