Re: (dsssl) DSSSL engines for ASCII output

Subject: Re: (dsssl) DSSSL engines for ASCII output
From: jany.quintard@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 09:28:23 +0200 (CEST)
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, John R. Sheets wrote:

> On Apr 17, 2001, jany.quintard@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, John R. Sheets wrote:
> > 
> > > What's the best way to output straight ASCII, based on a DSSSL
> > > .../...
> > > perl or python script (or whatever) for ASCII output?
> > For this I use the SGML backend with an entity to build the file and I
> > output the text using (literal ...).
> > I think the result is easy to transform using perl, python.
> 
> Could you give a quick example of what's involved here?  Why is the
> entity flow object so critical here?
Don't worry, the entity flow objet is only used to create one or more
output files (which is the usual way using the SGML/XML backends).

Jany.


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