From: Havoc Pennington (hp@Mcs.Net)
Date: Sun Feb 28 1999 - 16:05:29 EST
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>
> Yes, and yes :-)
>
Thanks!
> BTW, could you indicate what kind of use you have in mind ? If this
> turn out to be useful to others I may move it directly in tree.h .
>
Well, it is sort of ugly. I am writing something for publication, and the
publisher wants it in some atrocious format that will work with their
Microsoft software (their setup is ridiculously inefficient and
wrongheaded). I don't want to write in that format, because I want to be
able to manipulate the document with automated tools. I couldn't find an
existing DTD that was really appropriate. So I made up a little standalone
tag-set which corresponds to the styles they use, and using libxml I load
in my document and spit it out again in a format they can deal with.
Since the document is large I wanted #include type functionality,
and I thought the easiest way to do that would be with a magic <include>
tag, since I'm using my own hacky program to generate output anyway.
Now that I think about it I guess SGML at least had an "official" way to
do this. Anyway the included file contains an XML fragment.
Yesterday I hacked around it by loading the file into memory, placing
<dummy> </dummy> around the memory and parsing that, ignoring the top
node. But it sucks. :-) (The program is basically a single-use hack
though, so I'm not that concerned about it.)
Thanks,
Havoc
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