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Re: LOUT and XML
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Michael Piotrowski |
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Re: LOUT and XML |
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Tue, 18 Sep 2001 15:27:52 +0200 |
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Ian Carr-de Avelon <address@hidden> writes:
>> I might be wrong, of course. If Lout with angle brackets is really
>> needed, one could easily write a very short Perl script that does
>> something like
>>
>> s/<([-_.:[:alpha:]])+>/@\1{/g;
>> s/</.+>/}/g;
>>
>> to demonstrate the value of the approach. If this proves to be
>> popular, it then wouldn't be to hard to take Lout (rembember, it's
>> under the GPL), and change its syntax.
>
> This sounds like the way to go to me.
> Get the conversion scripts for both directions writen, give the new
> format a name: <lout>, loutXML? publicise it and accept questions to
> the list in both formats, and lout can be the number one XML formating
> system in no time.
> Any of us could do it, but you need one accepted and blessed version
> to give it the neccessary intertia to be unstopable.
Well, being first would give your implementation a good chance of
getting accepted, especially if people really have been waiting for
this so urgently, as you seem to suggest.
Personally, while I admit that it might be convenient in some cases, I
still think the "real" problems of both XML formatting and Lout are
somewhere else. I could also imagine that, once you have Lout using
XML syntax, people are going to demand that it supports XSL-FO,
because otherwise it would be useless. And of course it should
support every other hip, unfinished W3C Recommendation du jour, too.
--
Michael Piotrowski, M.A. <address@hidden>
- LOUT and XML, Dick Kampman, 2001/09/17
- Re: LOUT and XML, Ian Carr-de Avelon, 2001/09/18
- Re: LOUT and XML, Ian Carr-de Avelon, 2001/09/18
- Re: LOUT and XML,
Michael Piotrowski <=
- Re: LOUT and XML, Valeriy E. Ushakov, 2001/09/18
- Re: LOUT and XML, Ian Carr-de Avelon, 2001/09/18
- Re: LOUT and XML, Ian Carr-de Avelon, 2001/09/19
- LOUT and XML, Dick Kampman, 2001/09/20