Metacat

1) Simplified database connection creation by adding new utility routine in MetaCatUtil that reads configuration information from the properties file.
2) Created MetaCatUtil.getOption() to retrieve options from properties file.
3) Unified SAX Parser creation by specifying parser driver in the properties file and dynamically loading it using the XMLReaderFactory interface....

cleaned up code for getting options from the properties file, made the database connection inthe MetaCatUtil class use the properties file for the conneciton info

integrated new structured query facility (DBQuery) into the servlet demo (MetaCatServlet)

fixed QuerySpecification to produce SQL that does UNION or INTERSECT set operations for query group combinations

modified shell scripts to support new parser locations and syntax changes

minor modifications to fix problems introduced with AccessionNumber module

2 new properties added:
defaultGlobalName=NCEAS
accNumberSeparator=:

fixed error in pathquery.dtd

added result-set filter to DBSimpleQuery to only return specified document type

added query language dtd and example file

rewrote DBSimpleQuery and associated classes to no longer use Oracle's hierarchichal query syntax -- now this should work with any JDBC compliant backend DB

updated classpath to use jar file in shell scripts

updated jar file

updated paths to reflect new file locations

added jar archive for metacat servlet

moved java files to src directory

moved java files to src directory

minor formatting and display update

updated servlet UI and added new intgrated document validity feature to servlet. Working on transformation feature.

debugging form submission

updated resultset display

improved query result handling

updated style sheet locations

Update to handle retreival of datafile from server

update example query in html pages

xsl stylesheet fix for resultset format

added XSL formatting to document display for metacat servlet

creating automatic transformation for XML docs retreived from catalog

added dtds to catalog list

changed location of catalog file to config parameter

created options file for MetaCatServlet

added catalog text file

added example to HTML page

added validation code + changes

fixed nbsp formatting problem

added GenericXMLValidate

corrected the problem with  
added encoding for <xsl:output/> like
<xsl:output method="html" encoding="iso-8859-1"/>

corrected the problem with  

Jivka: resolved the problem with escape characters.
<xsl:output method="html" encoding="iso-8859-1"/>
encoding specifies the preferred character encoding
that the XSLT processor should use to encode
sequences of characters.
ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) includes characters like  

corrected error within the xsl file

corrected error within the xsl file

updated javadoc documentation for changes

further work on XML docuemnt loading facility in the MetaCatServlet

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added xml doc loading to servlet actions

changed package name to edu.ucsb.nceas.metacat.*

changed database connection code, added utility class MetaCatUtil.java

added document display function to servlet

continued work on interface to servlet

improvements to MetaCatServlet engine, added html access pages for catalog query

fixed stylesheet issue with undefined nbsp entity by wrapping it in CDATA section

eliminated IE5 specific issues in eml-variable-display.xsl, modified format of display of eml-variable

creating display stylesheet for eml-variable

added files for displaying eml-variable metadata

added example files showing use of Oracle's XSQL utiltiy for metadata storage and retrieval