Re: DSSSL library

[Tony Graham <tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 27 Jun 1997 10:37 -0400, Vivek Agrawala wrote:
 > Dave Love wrote:
 > > 
 > > `string-ci>?'; also is the sort itself optimal?  [I have O' Keefe's
 > > mergsort coded if it's any use.]
 > > 
 > > Is there somewhere to deposit such library-like stuff?
 > 
 > Collecting such things in one place seems like a good idea.
 > Here are a few things I collected from some recent posts. (see
 > attachment)

To quote myself,

At 6 Apr 1997 00:11 -0500, Tony Graham wrote:
 | One of the aims of this list is to leverage the knowledge of DSSSL
 | users, so do people have their own versions of the SDQL functions that
 | they can make available in the interim until they are included in the
 | tools?
 | 
 | If you are able to provide the definition for a SDQL operation, I
 | suggest a format similar to the following that also lists the
 | prerequisites for the operation, in this case those operations
 | provided by Jade 0.6 plus the "siblings" operation:
 | 
 | ;; (sdql-operation parameter)
 | ;; Author: Tony Graham <tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 | ;; Requires: Jade 0.6 + siblings
 | (define (sdql-operation parameter)
 |   ...)
 | 
 | If there is sufficient response, I will put the collected definitions
 | on the web page.

That was a long time before any thought of an organised documentation
effort.  The initial post about the DSSSL documentation project raised
the idea of a DSSSL Cookbook:

At 8 Jun 1997 23:39 -0400, Tony Graham wrote:
 +                                           plus make a "DSSSL Cookbook"
 + of tips and techniques for using DSSSL.

One or both of those ideas still stands.  Would the "DSSSL Cookbook"
be a good place to collect those fragments?

Regards,


Tony Graham
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