SynopsX is a lightweith framework which goal is to easily publish and expose XML scholarly corpora. It’s a full XQuery web application built with the native XML database BaseX.
SynopsX requires BaseX > 8.0
Since BaseX 8.0, Java 7 is required. We recommend using Java 8.
SynopsX uses Saxon for XSLT transformations
- To download the last JDK from the Oracle Page : http://www.objis.com/formation-java/tutoriel-java-installation-jdk.html. - Before downloading choose the appropriate version (system + processor: i.e. Mac OSX x64)
- Go to you Downloads directory and double-click on the installation file: i.e.: jdk-8u60-macosx-x64.dmg or jdk-8u60-macosx-x64.exe
- Complete installation
- Open a terminal to check the Java JDK version (
java --version)
- Install BaseX by downloading the latest ZIP Archive from http://basex.org/products/download/all-downloads/
- Unzip the Archive
- Run BaseX to check if it works properly
- download from (choose the zipped directory, on top of the page): http://sourceforge.net/projects/saxon/files/
- unzip the downloaded files
- put the content (the .jar files) inside
basex/lib
- clone SynopsX on your computer
git clone https://github.com/synopsx/synopsx.git-
Move the download directory into
basex/webapp/ -
Delete the
resxq.xqmfile intobasex/webapp/
For Mac OS and Linux, you may use the install.sh script to install BaseX, Saxon and SynopsX.
SynopsX is directly available on localhost when you start BaseX in HTTP server.
Start BaseX in HTTP server
cd <path-to-basex>
sh ./bin/basexhttp # run basex in http serverIn a browser, reach localhost:8984/