[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: Muse-wiki milestone reached

[drkm]

address@hidden (Björn Lindström) writes:

> drkm <address@hidden> writes:

>> And if you know XSLT, IMHO, using some Muse XML language can be the
>> most powerfull way of customizing the Muse output, because that XML is
>> the nearest of Muse itself (and it's not, for example, a translation
>> in DocBook).

> Some of us are quite happy customising the output in Elisp. I don't want
> to learn XML more than I absolutely have to.

  Yes, and I'm one of them.  But maybe I wasn't clear enough
(BTW, sorry for my poor, poor English).  What I mean is that Muse
output can be customized in a lot of ways.

  People who know ELisp use it.  And it's a Good Thing.  People
that know HTML and CSS can customize the output at this level.
People that know DocBook use the DocBook output.  A lot of people
know XML, and it could be a Good Thing if they can use a XML
output for Muse.

  I know (a few) about ELisp, XML, XSLT, HTML and CSS.  And I
guess a publishing process like:

    Muse files + ELisp -> MuseXML
    MuseXML + XSLT (+ PHP + JavaScript + ...) -> XHTML
    XHTML + CSS (+ ELisp + Shell scripts + CL + Python + ...) -> final output

could be very powerfull.  To tranform data like the Muse data,
XSLT can be very interesting, IMHO.

--drkm