Metalinks News

The Metalinks project page has been moved to the Metamirrors.nl site to join up with this online metalinks giant in promoting metalinks.

The Metalinks tools project is happy to announce that Hampus Wessman will be joining the team.

His python based GUI for creating metalinks will hit the SVN as soon as possible. If you want to get it even before it's there, check out: http://hampus.vox.nu/metalink/

With the addition of Hampus's work, we will finally work towards an easier interface for the desktop user!

I'm happy to anounce that Anthony Bryan has joined this project. We are now going to move the tools and generators to the Metalinker.org XML format.

Due to the fact that only local, to the XML record, XSLT files can be used (others are security threats).

Everybody will probably want to distribute their own metalinks XSLT sheets, so download the XSL package and start doing just that.

Well.. the metalink program would like to generate record which are readable. However, it seems to be a security threat to include a non local XSLT sheet, which means every metalinks record needs a local XSLT sheet to be user readable.
There doesn't seem to be a way to create incline XSLT sheet (like you would with CSS), because you would generate two document root nodes.
Well, short story is, the next metalink release will combine an XSLT package and probably create a local XSLT record with a default name whenever generating records. Not the best solution, but a user readable one at least.

The XSLT files have been moved around allot. With the next change a package will also be created for easy local use and change to them, so you can give them your own style.

Well, XSLT is partially working. However, it seems firefox won't load all XSLT sheets from different servers stating it's a security hazard.

I still have to look into this. When the stylesheets are fully done, I'll package them and place them between the files. See the examples for a working demonstration:

http://metalinks.sourceforge.net/1/examples/

The first utility is here. It should generate version 1 draft records in xml.
This first utility is written in C++.