Re: a new command that converts XML Texinfo to Texinfo

[Karl Berry]

Hi Patrice,

Regarding txixml2texi.

First, after installing XML::LibXML::Reader, I still can't get our own
dependencies to resolve.

$ pwd
/u/karl/gnu/src/texinfo/util
$ ./txixml2texi
Can't locate Texinfo/Common.pm in @INC (@INC contains: 
/usr/local/share/texinfo/lib/libintl-perl/lib 
/usr/local/share/texinfo/lib/Unicode-EastAsianWidth/lib 
/usr/local/share/texinfo/lib/Text-Unidecode/lib 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.2/i686-linux 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.2 /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.14.2/i686-linux 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.14.2 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.3 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at ./txixml2texi line 53.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./txixml2texi line 53.

$ cd ../tp  # ok, try from tp to find our Texinfo::Common.
$ ../util/txixml2texi
Can't locate Locale/Messages.pm in @INC (@INC contains: 
/usr/local/share/texinfo/lib/libintl-perl/lib 
/usr/local/share/texinfo/lib/Unicode-EastAsianWidth/lib 
/usr/local/share/texinfo/lib/Text-Unidecode/lib 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.2/i686-linux 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.14.2 /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.14.2/i686-linux 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.14.2 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.3 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.0 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at Texinfo/Report.pm line 46.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Texinfo/Report.pm line 46.
[...]


Second, can you give me a brief summary on what is and isn't expanded
with XML?  I could do experiments, but it seems faster and more reliable
to ask you.  Macros (defined with @macro) and @value are expanded,
right?  And conditionals?  But the original is still left behind in some
form?


Third, trivial, I wonder about moving the opening { for sub's to the sub
line, as in:
sub skip_until_end($$) {
I think I may have been the one who suggested putting the { in column
one, following C, but since then I've realized that it's not needed in
Perl, because the keyword "sub" lets one find functions in any case ...


thanks,
karl