Subject: RE: MIF output from XT From: "Didier PH Martin" <martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 1999 18:00:31 -0500 |
Hi Christopher, If you choose to use DSSSL to transform XML into MIF then you'll have to work with intermediary formatting objects like you would do with XSL formatting objects. DSSSL is not necessarily better than XSL nor is the contrary but the main DSSSL engine named OpenJade which is the result of an international team effort has a MIF backend plug-in as well as a RTF, SGML, TeX backend plug-in. Originally this tool was the product of James Clark and the OpenJade team took the relay. Actually, the team just released the 1.3 version and is in the course to release the 1.4 version. If you want information about DSSSL go to: http://www.netfolder.com/DSSSL You'll find there a lot of resource for this language and a support group of users ready to help you in your learning. As I said, DSSSL is not necessarily better than XSL neither is the contrary, it is just different and it happens that it has a MIF backend already developed, is very mature and well maintained by an international team of developers. It is free and Open source. it is also fast because it is implemented in C++. Hope this may help you Didier PH Martin mailto:martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.netfolder.com -----Original Message----- From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Christopher R. Maden Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 4:59 PM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: MIF output from XT [Sotiris Georgiou] >I a new to XML and XT. I am using ME IE5 XML functionality. I am trying >to transform XML to MIF using XT. MIF uses the angle brackets but it is >not valid XML. This is, in general, a non-trivial task - besides the MIF syntax itself, you have to escape certain characters in text, keep <String>s from getting too long, and a variety of other fun problems. Depending on what you're trying to do, you may want to take a look at the MIF back-end to Jade (a DSSSL processor - <URL:http://www.jclark.com/>) or at the tagged-MIF generation routines I produced at O'Reilly (<URL:http://www.oreilly.com/%7Ecrism/dsssl/orastyle/>). If you do decide to use XSL, the code in the orastyle package may prove helpful. If you decide to use DSSSL, you'll probably want to subscribe to this list's sister, dssslist-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -Chris -- Christopher R. Maden, Solutions Architect Exemplary Technologies One Embarcadero Center, Ste. 2405 San Francisco, CA 94111 XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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