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+#!/bin/sh
+# @(#$Id: rclsvg,v 1.1 2008-02-03 16:04:58 dockes Exp $  (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
+# Parts taken from Estraier:
+#================================================================
+# Estraier: a personal full-text search system
+# Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Mikio Hirabayashi
+#================================================================
+#================================================================
+# Extract text from a Scalable Vector Graphics file
+#================================================================
+
+# set variables
+LANG=C ; export LANG
+LC_ALL=C ; export LC_ALL
+progname="rclsvg"
+filetype=svg
+
+#RECFILTCOMMONCODE
+##############################################################################
+# !! Leave the previous line unmodified!! Code imported from the
+# recfiltcommon file
+
+# Utility code common to all shell filters. This could be sourced at run
+# time, but it's slightly more efficient to include the code in the
+# filters at build time (with a sed script).
+
+# Describe error in a way that can be interpreted by our caller
+senderror()
+{
+    echo RECFILTERROR $*
+    # Also alert on stderr just in case
+    echo ":2:$progname::: $*" 1>&2
+    exit 1
+}
+
+iscmd()
+{
+    cmd=$1
+    case $cmd in
+    */*)
+	if test -x $cmd ; then return 0; else return 1; fi ;;
+    *)
+      oldifs=$IFS; IFS=":"; set -- $PATH; IFS=$oldifs
+      for d in $*;do test -x $d/$cmd && return 0;done
+      return 1 ;;
+    esac
+}
+
+checkcmds()
+{
+    for cmd in $*;do
+      if iscmd $cmd 
+      then 
+        a=1
+      else 
+        senderror HELPERNOTFOUND $cmd
+      fi
+    done
+}
+
+# show help message
+if test $# -ne 1 -o "$1" = "--help" 
+then
+  echo "Convert a $filetype file to HTML text for Recoll indexing."
+  echo "Usage: $progname [infile]"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+infile="$1"
+
+# check the input file existence (may be '-' for stdin)
+if test "X$infile" != X- -a ! -f "$infile"
+then
+  senderror INPUTNOSUCHFILE "$infile"
+fi
+
+# protect access to our temp files and directories
+umask 77
+
+##############################################################################
+# !! Leave the following line unmodified !
+#ENDRECFILTCOMMONCODE
+
+checkcmds iconv sed
+
+# check the input file existence
+if test ! -f "$infile"
+then
+  printf '%s: %s: no such file\n' "$progname" "$infile"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+encoding=`sed -ne '/<?xml/s/.*encoding="\([^"]*\).*/\1/p' < $infile`
+echo encoding $encoding
+
+if test X$encoding = X ; then encoding=UTF-8;fi
+
+# We use several sed instances to make our life easier. Not good for
+# performance, and a sed guru might be able to do better.
+#
+# The first sed makes sure each tag starts on a new line
+# The second one selects the tags we're interested in.
+# The last strips the tags, leaving only text.
+#
+# The whole thing wholly ignore issues like '<' inside quoted strings.
+#
+# We could/should add code to explicitely separate title and other
+# metadata elements.
+
+# Insert new line before each tag
+sptagonline='s/</\
+</g'
+
+# Select tags
+spselecttags='/<title/,/<\/title>/p
+/<desc/,/<\/desc>/p
+/<metadata/,/<\/metadata>/p
+/<text/,/<\/text>/p'
+
+# Strip tags
+spstriptags='#n
+/</{
+    :c
+     />/!{
+	N
+	b c
+     }
+     />/s/<.*>//g
+}
+/^[ 	]*$/!p'
+
+content=`sed -e "$sptagonline" < $infile | sed -ne "$spselecttags" | \
+    sed -ne "$spstriptags"`
+
+(echo '<html><head>'
+echo '<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">'
+echo '</head><body><pre>'
+echo "$content" 
+echo '</pre></body></html>') \
+| iconv -f $encoding -t UTF-8 -c -s 
+
+
+# exit normally
+exit 0
