(dsssl) Re: DSSSList Digest V5 #120

[Suki Venkat <skvenkat@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

You are in the right place (DSSSL) for this job.
Basically there are two ways of doing this:
(1) Use SGML+DTD to XMLize the syntax (you can use Jade+identity.dsl with 
xml-backend for this) and then use XSLT to transform to any other XML.
(2) You can also do a direct SGML transformation to your XML.

Regards

S.K.Venkat
TnQ Books and Journals, Chennai


At 02:30 AM 2/21/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> DSSSList Digest       Friday, February 21 2003       Volume 05 : Number 120
>
>
>
> In this issue:
>
>      (dsssl) SGML to XML
>      Re: (dsssl) SGML to XML
>      RE: (dsssl) SGML to XML
>      Re: (dsssl) SGML to XML
>      RE: (dsssl) SGML to XML
>      (dsssl) display-group and jadetex
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 02:53:23 -0800 (PST)
> From: Narinder Garg <narinder_g@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: (dsssl) SGML to XML
>
> Hi
> I am new to DSSSL. I wish to get SGML of some DTD to my XML. Currently I 
> am using James utility
> sx.exe to get an equivalent XML and doing XSL transformation to my XML. Is 
> there some way in DSSSL
> to get directly my xml. Jade can do it but I could not figure out as I 
> dont know the DSSSL syntax.
> Any help will be appreciated
> Thanks
> Narinder
>
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> ------------------------------
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> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:04:41 +0100
> From: Jany Quintard <jany.quintard@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: (dsssl) SGML to XML
>
> * Narinder Garg [Thu, 20/02/2003 at 02:53 -0800]
> > Hi
> > I am new to DSSSL. I wish to get SGML of some DTD to my XML. Currently 
> I am using James utility
> > sx.exe to get an equivalent XML and doing XSL transformation to my XML. 
> Is there some way in DSSSL
> > to get directly my xml. Jade can do it but I could not figure out as I 
> dont know the DSSSL syntax.
> > Any help will be appreciated
>
> To output XML, use the xml backend (-t xml)
> and some identity transformation
>
> - -----------------------------------
> <!DOCTYPE style-sheet PUBLIC "-//James Clark//DTD DSSSL Style Sheet//EN"
> >
>
> <style-specification>
>
> (default
>   (if (node-property "must-omit-end-tag?" (current-node))
>       (make empty-element attributes: (copy-attributes))
>       (make element       attributes: (copy-attributes))))
>
> </style-specification>
> - ------------------------------------
>
> You can find the copy-attribute fonction on the Openjade page
>
> HiH. Jany
> - --
> - ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jany Quintard         | How do you know so much about swallows?
> jany.quintard@xxxxxxx | Well, you have to know these things when you are
>                       | a king, you know. [Terry Jones & Graham Chapman]
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:11:06 +0100
> From: Miroslaw Prywata <Miroslaw.Prywata@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: (dsssl) SGML to XML
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Narinder Garg [mailto:narinder_g@xxxxxxxxx]
> > I am new to DSSSL. I wish to get SGML of some DTD to my XML.
> > Currently I am using James utility
> > sx.exe to get an equivalent XML and doing XSL transformation
> > to my XML. Is there some way in DSSSL
> > to get directly my xml. Jade can do it but I could not figure
> > out as I dont know the DSSSL syntax.
> > Any help will be appreciated
>
> It's very simple (provided your XSL is simple). If you only want to replace
> some element by others use
>
> make element
> make empty-element
> ....
>
> Syntax is easy and you won't have to make XSL transformations afterwards. I
> use this method to produce XSL-FO documents from SGML documents.
>
> Example:
>
> (element FG (make element gi: "fo:inline" attributes: '(("vertical-align"
> "super"))))
> (element FD (make element gi: "fo:inline" attributes: '(("vertical-align"
> "sub"))))
>
>
> <FG>aaa</FG>   is transformed into  <fo:inline
> vertical-align="super">aaa</fo:inline>
>
>
>
> Remember about putting this  first:
>
> (declare-flow-object-class element
>   "UNREGISTERED::James Clark//Flow Object Class::element")
>
> (declare-flow-object-class empty-element
>   "UNREGISTERED::James Clark//Flow Object Class::empty-element")
>
> (declare-flow-object-class document-type
>   "UNREGISTERED::James Clark//Flow Object Class::document-type")
>
> (declare-flow-object-class processing-instruction
>   "UNREGISTERED::James Clark//Flow Object Class::processing-instruction")
>
> (declare-flow-object-class entity
>   "UNREGISTERED::James Clark//Flow Object Class::entity")
>
> (declare-flow-object-class entity-ref
>   "UNREGISTERED::James Clark//Flow Object Class::entity-ref")
>
> (declare-flow-object-class formatting-instruction
>   "UNREGISTERED::James Clark//Flow Object Class::formatting-instruction")
>
> (declare-characteristic preserve-sdata?
>   "UNREGISTERED::James Clark//Characteristic::preserve-sdata?" #t)
>
>
> Mirek
>
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:35:21 +0100
> From: "Juan R. Migoya" <jmigoya@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: (dsssl) SGML to XML
>
> This is the batch file I use to transform from SGML to MXL:
>
> osx -biso-8859-1 -fosx_err.log -xempty -xno-nl-in-tag -xcdata -xcomment 
> -c\\webinge\d\docbookx\docbook.cat %1 %2
>
> Of course, yo must change the path to "docbook.cat"
>
> The arguments are the input and otuput files respectively.
>
> Regards,
> Juan R. Migoya
>
> Narinder Garg wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> > I am new to DSSSL. I wish to get SGML of some DTD to my XML. Currently 
> I am using James utility
> > sx.exe to get an equivalent XML and doing XSL transformation to my XML. 
> Is there some way in DSSSL
> > to get directly my xml. Jade can do it but I could not figure out as I 
> dont know the DSSSL syntax.
> > Any help will be appreciated
> > Thanks
> > Narinder
> >
> > __________________________________________________
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> > http://taxes.yahoo.com/
> >
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 09:27:18 -0500
> From: Didier PH Martin <martind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: (dsssl) SGML to XML
>
> Hi Narinder
>
> You said:
> I am new to DSSSL. I wish to get SGML of some DTD to my XML. Currently I am
> using James utility
> sx.exe to get an equivalent XML and doing XSL transformation to my XML. Is
> there some way in DSSSL
> to get directly my xml. Jade can do it but I could not figure out as I dont
> know the DSSSL syntax.
> Any help will be appreciated
>
> Didier replies:
> Yes you can do that, as Jany said, with the XML backend. Also, Miroslav also
> gave you a good hint of what kind of OpenJade extensions to be used for that
> purpose.
>
> I will add though that the transformations you need to do have to be simple.
> In other words, that the matching rule you can use is restricted to elements
> matching and this latter is not available with the current OpenJade version.
> This query construction rule (i.e. matching rule) allows more sophisticated
> matching rules like, for instance, matching to an attribute or an other
> special condition as you would do with XSLT. This is because, Openjade has
> no implementations of the query construction rule. To know more about the
> DSSSL construction rules read:
> http://www.netfolder.com/DSSSL/DSSSL-markup-Rules.htm.
>
> To get more resources about DSSSL and OpenJade (I updated that site last
> week) you can go to: http://www.netfolder.com/DSSSL
>
> In conclusion, if the matching process could be restricted to elements only,
> then you may remove an unnecessary step and use OpenJade to directly
> transform your SGML document into (I guess) an XML based rendering language.
> Otherwise, unfortunately, you'll still need XSLT in the process.
>
> Cheers
> Didier PH Martin
> http://www.didier-martin.com
>
>
>
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> ------------------------------
>
> Date: 20 Feb 2003 11:04:43 -0600
> From: Adam DiCarlo <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: (dsssl) display-group and jadetex
>
> Hi. I've been doing the work to maintain the docbook-dsssl stylesheets
> and in the print stylesheets I'm finding numerous bugs caused by the
> fact that JadeTeX seems to add vertical spacing to display-group.  See
> SourceForge bug 560872,
> <URL:http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=560872&group_id=28782&atid=394217>.
>
> There are two possible approaches: (a) fix JadeTex, or (b) add
> negative display-group spacing in docbook-dsssl to work-around it in
> docbook-dsssl.
>
> Obviously (a) is more desirable.  Is there any prospect that it could
> be fixed in JadeTeX?  Are there any patches available?
>
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