Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Re: submissions

[Bryce Harrington]

On 25 Jan 2001, Mike Warren wrote:

> Bryce Harrington <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > For things like bold, italics, etc., you could specify a specific
> > way for text documents to be followed, that make it easier to parse
> > from.  For example...
> 
> Yes, this is what I had in mind for email submissions. ``Most'' things
> could be readily gleaned by a few simple heuristics, I imagine. I'll
> certainly volunteer for this aspect of the project (as long as it's
> not Perl)...

The code to do this actually already exists (in Perl, m'fraid, though).
Check this page for a full listing of formatting syntax used:
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TextFormattingRules

The software's source code is downloadable, and I bet you could extract
the appropriate code out straight away.  It converts to HTML rather than
XML, but that's something that could be tinkered with.  

Bryce