$Revision: 1.3 $
$Author: simon $

This package is intended to implement an ISO8211 to XML translater by
implementing a DOM parser for ISO8211 format data. It fully doesn't work yet.

To see what it does so far, add iso8211.jar (found or made in the java
directory) and the jar files found in the lib directory to your
classpath and then run

java uk.co.weft.iso8211.Parser <file>

where <file> is the path to an S57 data file. It produces XML on the
standard output and warning messages on the standard error
stream. There are a number of optional flags but the only one that's
useful yet is '-debug true', thus:

java uk.co.weft.iso8211.Parser -debug true <file>

At present it will produce copious debugging messages on the standard
error stream, and nothing on the standard output. Later (when it
works) it will produce XML on the standard output, and later still a
command line switch will allow you to controll the amount of debugging
output generated.

To rebuild the files edit the file Make-local-dependencies to reflect
your local setup and then run GNU make in the src directory to build
the files. Yes, it would be a good thing to reconfigure the build
scripts to run under ant rather than make, but it isn't on my priority
list. If anyone contributes it I shall integrate it.

Once the ISO8211 to XML translation is working reliably - the XML will
be extremely crude and will simply map the records in the S57 file -
the next stage in the project will be to write a series of XSL-T
transforms which convert the crude XML into higher-level XML and into
SVG.

My personal final objective is to be able to produce SVG renderings of
ENCs for us in small craft navigation.