Port viewer to work as static site

jachan commented 4 months ago

Discovery ticket to track work to migrate XSL stylesheets to work on arbitrary XML.

Acceptance criteria: Sample XML form 1120 can be formatted and viewed in browser.

jachan commented 4 months ago

Current blocker: Uncaught TypeError: top.ReturnTree is undefined

Sourced from top.ReturnTree.formLoadedInFrame(); in PopulateTemplate.xsl line 2381, root cause is that top.ReturnTree never seems to be populated because ReturnTreeBase.xsl referenced in line 2388 does not exist.

jachan commented 3 months ago

3/11: Continuing exploration of getting XSLT transform package to work with Sample XML. Considering writing own ReturnTree structure skeleton to see what data needs to be stored in the structure.

jachan commented 3 months ago

https://github.com/betson/irs-efile-viewer/tree/master/mef

MEF Library has been ported by other users - investigating licensing and how much of this 990 viewer can be used for our case.

Hosted at https://betson.github.io/irs-efile-viewer/. Only supports TY2008-2021, but we should be able to self-host and import additional tax years if we fork this repository.

Notes about the current repo:

MIT license, we should be free to use it
Uses Jekyll framework in Ruby to create static site.
Requires Ruby to build locally (blocked on RubyGems cert Zscaler issues)
Issues with importing Example1120 XML generated by Visual Studio, unclear whether this is an issue with efile viewer code or with the example file, it will be helpful to get an example 1120 from NJ DOT.

jachan commented 3 months ago

3/12:

Debugged windows Zscaler issue and managed to host irs-efile-viewer locally

jachan commented 3 months ago

Marking issue as done, as Sample 1120 can be viewed on locally hosted site using https://github.com/newjersey/taxation-mef-viewer

newjersey / taxation-mef-viewer

Port viewer to work as static site #1