RE: (dsssl) DSSSL engines for ASCII output (in DSSSList Digest V4 #150)

[MARK.WROTH@xxxxxxxxxxx (Wroth, Mark)]

Look at the non-standard flow object "entity" in James Clark's extensions to
DSSSL; I've used that for some plain ASCII output.

I gather, but can't confirm of my own knowledge, that XSL has more direct
support for the concept, though.


>Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 22:40:44 -0500
>From: "John R. Sheets" <dusk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: (dsssl) DSSSL engines for ASCII output
>
>What's the best way to output straight ASCII, based on a DSSSL
>stylesheet?  I didn't see any Jade backends that would help.  Any
>other tools that I can use for SGML->ASCII transformations?  Am I
>better off sidestepping DSSSL altogether and hacking together a custom
>perl or python script (or whatever) for ASCII output?
>
>Hmm, are the XSLT tools any better with ASCII output?
>
>Thanks,
>John


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