Re: API to formatters and grove engines -Reply

[David Pawson <DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why don't you just walk the grove tree from Visual Basic
code and spit out the strings you want to spit out?

All you want is a nice language for transforming SGML
documents into some other text format. 


Processing a section of a document and outputting strings
seems much more in the "spirit" of the transformation
language. 
----
Snipping the above, I know that Java is no better than
C in terms of learning curve, but when I first came to
SGML I picked up enough Java to start to run Tim Brays
offering to the world, Lark (www.textuality.com/lark).
 From that I can isolate elements,
access characteristics and content, and then use the 
power of Java to do what | wanted.

Is this another approach that may do what you want?
Regards, DaveP
 



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