Re: Java pretty printing in/with DocBook

[Gavin Nicol <gtn@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I think DTDs for programming languages in general would be very
>useful- not just for source code formatting. I am not thinking about
>*authoring* DTDs. I am thinking about an SGML or XML
>based alternative output format from language
>compilers/interpreters.
>
>If such DTDs could be standardized (ho, ho) for a language and
>if vendors incorporated support for them as output
>formats from the compiler, then XSL/DSSSL stylesheets 
>could run riot.
>
>An extra benefit: source code could then be "compiled" into
>a form suitable for storage in an SGML/XML database.
>The advantages of being able to do this seem pretty interesting.
>Structure sensitive searching, semantic based re-use
>and so on.

Two things:
  1) The DOM spec is currently written in XML, and the JAVA and CORBA
  IDL bindings are automatically generated from the XML source.

  2) One of my hacks from a year or so ago is to turn a set
     of source code into a DynaText book. It turned out to be
     very useful.


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