Re: [xsl] Should XSLT be used to generate a plain text document?

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey! I like that rendering!

It even comes through email. :-P

Cheers,
Wendell

At 05:59 PM 4/27/2005, David wrote:

> >What makes this tricky is that by "plain text" people often mean not
> >text that's very plain, but ASCII-art-like text that is plain only in
> >the sense that it's free of any markup or encoding whatsoever (apart
> >from the text itself) ... as always it depends on the requirements.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >Wendell
>
> You mean something like:
>
> m.xml
>
> <math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML";>
> <munderover>
> <mo>&#8721;</mo>
> <mrow><mi>i</mi><mo>=</mo><mn>0</mn></mrow>
> <mi>&#x221e;</mi>
> </munderover>
> <msqrt><mfrac><mn>&#x3B1;</mn><mi>i</mi></mfrac></msqrt>
> </math>
>
>
> $ saxon8 m.xml pmathmlascii.xsl
>
> infinity
>   ----     _____
>    \      |alpha
>     )   _ |-----
>    /     \|  i
>   ----
>  i = 0


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