[Gnobog-devel] Re: Critical bugs fixed

[Detlef Vollmann]

address@hidden wrote:

> >(I'm tempted to look into the import/export plugins anyway
> >as I want to exchange bookmarks with dillo which uses its
> >own bookmark format.)
> 
> Yes, I thought about that when you mentioned Dillo in a previous
> mail :-)
> Import plugins are really easy to write, they're just "black boxes"
> taking a text stream as input (stdin) and outputing (stdout) the converted 
> stream. You'll have to take a look at the netscape or mozilla plugin (they're 
> in perl because it was faster to write), and the gnobog file format.
> 
> For export plugins, the easiest way is to write them in xslt (again
> you can look at existing plugins). If you know xslt it will be easy,
> if not you can still go with C or script, but it's a good way to
> learn xslt :-)
> Anyway, export plugins work the same way: gnobog format data as input stream, 
> and they output the converted stream. No need to care about where the data is 
> written.

I'll think about that.  Right now I'm pretty busy with other stuff,
but it will not get lost (I want it myself pretty urgently).

Detlef

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