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Re: Changes to Texinfo DTD
From: |
Oliver Scholz |
Subject: |
Re: Changes to Texinfo DTD |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:19:24 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/22.0.0 (windows-nt) |
"Robert J. Chassell" <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
> First, it seems to me cleaner to write an XML renderer that can
> standalone, and then write separate code to enable the standalone Info
> to choose whether to use its current renderer or the new one.
I take that to mean: to write an entirely new program that does the
same job as the current standalone reader, but renders XML. I fail to
see the benefit. I admit that it would be conceptually nicer to have
the program keep the XML document as a DOM-like tree of nodes in
memory rather than as a flat string of characters (for the internal
representation would be the only difference to my proposal). But I do
not see what difference it would make for a user. But maybe I am
missing something.
More importantly: it would be a *lot* of work and you would need
somebody who implements it. I am certainly not going to write an
entirely new standalone XML browser in C. But I am willing to
implement my proposal and I am willing to do it now.
> Second, you could write code to enable GNU Emacs to run a standalone
> XML renderer, the way it now runs W3M mode -- the advantage of this is
> that more people would test the standalone XML renderer than they
> would if it only worked outside of Emacs.
[...]
That would also be a *lot* more work and maybe it could even be worse
performance-wise than rendering the XML directly in Elisp. You'd have
the process communication *and* you would still need to parse and
render some ad hoc made markup from the standalone reader.
Oliver
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- Re: HTML as info format, (continued)
- Re: HTML as info format, Juri Linkov, 2003/11/17
- Re: HTML as info format, Richard Stallman, 2003/11/18
- Changes to Texinfo DTD [Was: Re: HTML as info format], Robert J. Chassell, 2003/11/18
- Re: Changes to Texinfo DTD, Oliver Scholz, 2003/11/18
- Re: Changes to Texinfo DTD, Robert J. Chassell, 2003/11/18
- Re: Changes to Texinfo DTD, Nic Ferrier, 2003/11/18
- Re: Changes to Texinfo DTD, Robert J. Chassell, 2003/11/19
- Re: Changes to Texinfo DTD, Nic Ferrier, 2003/11/19
- Re: Changes to Texinfo DTD, Oliver Scholz, 2003/11/20
- Re: Changes to Texinfo DTD, Robert J. Chassell, 2003/11/20
- Re: Changes to Texinfo DTD,
Oliver Scholz <=
- Re: Changes to Texinfo DTD, Nic Ferrier, 2003/11/20
- Re: Changes to Texinfo DTD, Oliver Scholz, 2003/11/20
- Re: Changes to Texinfo DTD, Nic Ferrier, 2003/11/20
- Re: Changes to Texinfo DTD, Robert J. Chassell, 2003/11/20
- Re: Changes to Texinfo DTD, Nic Ferrier, 2003/11/21
- Re: Changes to Texinfo DTD, Robert J. Chassell, 2003/11/20
- Re: Changes to Texinfo DTD, Nic Ferrier, 2003/11/21
- Re: Changes to Texinfo DTD, Juri Linkov, 2003/11/24
- Re: Changes to Texinfo DTD, Nic Ferrier, 2003/11/24
- Re: Changes to Texinfo DTD, Richard Stallman, 2003/11/22