Re: Java pretty printing in/with DocBook

[Sean Mc Grath <digitome@xxxxxx>]

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.



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