Apriso Help

Main goal

Extract content from DELMIA Apriso help pages in markdown

Prerequisites

• Pip
• Python 3+
• Vitrualenv

Installation

1. Clone or download the repository;
2. Create virtual environment ( virtualenv venv );
3. Install the list of packages using requirements.txt ( pip install -r requirements.txt ).

Folder summary and file structure

AprisoHelp
├── .gitignore
├── common.py
├── config.inis
├── conv_html.py
├── conv_xml.py
├── README.md
├── requirements.txt
└── split_folder.py

Instructions

1. Download the help folder Dassault Systemes\DELMIA Apriso 2021\WebSite\Help\en-us from Apriso (version 2021 or higher).
2. Run the split_folder.py script, which places the .xml type pages in the en-us_xml folder and the .htm type pages in the en-us_htm folder
3. Run the conv_xml.py script, to convert the .xml pages to .md (markdown) from the result/rst_xml folder
4. Run the conv_htm.py script, to convert the .htm pages to .md (markdown) from the result/rst_htm folder
5. Identify the converted files in the result folder

Next Steps

1. .xml pages with multiple templates were not implemented, such as MPIAnalytics and MPILiteAnalytics.