Subject: Re: XSL and entities From: Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 14:23:46 -0500 |
James Clark wrote: > > Note that FooML doesn't have to be an elaborate expression of the > semantics of Foo in XML (although there advantages if you can do that). > It can be braindead simple. For example, for LaTeX a DTD like this > would be probably enough: > > <!DOCTYPE LaTeX [ > <!ELEMENT LaTeX (#PCDATA|markup)*> > <!ELEMENT markup (#PCDATA)> > ]> SHHHH. Let's keep this possibility under our hat. There are huge benefits to getting people to rethink RTF, LaTeX, .xls, .ppt etc. in terms of XML. > The LaTeXXlate program would pass characters within a "markup" element > through unchanged, but would transform characters outside a "markup" > element so that when formatted with LaTeX they would print a > representation of that character. For example, outside a "markup" > element, { and } would be output as \{ and \}, but inside they would be > output unchanged as { and }. If this is to be done "at the same time as" the XSL process, without linearizing ot LaTeXML, then we could develop an API for doing so. It would probably be a subset of the DOM Paul Prescod - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco It's such a Bore Being always Poor LANGSTON HUGHES http://www.northshore.net/homepages/hope/engHughes.html XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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