Re: Lout to HTML

[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

On Wed, 13 Nov 1996, David Middleton wrote:

> Has anyone got an SGML solution that is actually usable for a wide
> range of tasks?

IMHO, an interesting and promising thing to investigate is SGMLSpm
package:

>   Welcome to SGMLS.pm, an extensible perl5 class library for processing
>   the output from the sgmls and nsgmls parsers. SGMLS.pm is free,
>   copyrighted software available by anonymous ftp in the directory
>   ftp://aix1.uottawa.ca/pub/dmeggins/.

It's also available at CPAN in /modules/by-module/SGMLS

Out of box, it converts a subset of docbook to html and latex. Adding
lout and whatever DTD you have interest in should be easy. Also perl5
is somewhat more widespread than scheme (let's face it, i love scheme,
but it's in perl that i write most of my code)

An example from DOC/tolatex.pl

    sgml('<ARTICLE>', "\\documentstyle[11pt]{article}\n\n" .
         "\\setlength{\\parskip}{3ex}\n" .
         "\\raggedright\n\n");
    sgml('</ARTICLE>', "\\end{document}\n");

Well, change this to

    sgml ('<ARTICLE>', <<'END_OF_CODE');
    @SysInclude { report }
    @Report
    END_OF_CODE
    
    sgml ('</ARTICLE>', '');

and so on in the similar way.


Best regards!

SY, Uwe.
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