RE: [xsl] parsing post script

["Jim Fuller" <jim.fuller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well you are going to have a problem if you are expecting to 'bring in' a
postscript file into an xslt transform. For example, the document() function
will whine because it needs well formed xml. In xslt 2.0 there is an
unparsed-text() function which would bring in the file, I believe ( use
latest saxon to exp the delights of XSLT 2.0 ).

If you could just take the contents of a ps file and wrap it with a root
element that still might be an issue, as I once had the pleasure of actually
programming something rather complex in postscript ( and yes David is right,
it's a fully featured language )....and I think you would end up having to
use d-o-e or CDATA[].

Just because XSLT is good at a job, doesn't mean it will be good for all
jobs. I would suggest maybe, if you are mining content, to convert ps to
html ( use http://webdesign.about.com/cs/htmlconverters/ ) and tidy it up
using html tidy, then bringing in the data.

gl, jim fuller

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Karthikeyan
Ramnath
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 4:28 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


Actually I dont need to render a PS file, but instead I've got to parse an
existing file and try to make sense out of it, as in, I should be able to
extract the data.
How tough would that be with XSLT and what other approach could I follow.
Right now, I'm manually reading the values enclosed in brackets()... which
is only a hack to get to the data...
kr.
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David
> Carlisle
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 10:24 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] parsing post script
>
>
>
>
>   Guys, I require to parse a PS file. I know that its
> possible to render a PS
>   file with XSLT, but is the reverse possible?
>   Thanks,
>   Karthikeyan.r
>
> It would be very hard to produce any usable Postscript directly from
> XSLT, and virtually impossible to read PostScript.
>
> PostScript is a fully featured programming language. It is no doubt
> theoretically possible to write a PostScript interpreter in XSLT, but
> it would be thousands of lines of code, and rather slow, compared to
> using a real postscript interpreter as built in to a
> PS printer, or an emulator such as ghostscript.
>
> David
>
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> http://www.dcarlisle.demon.co.uk/matthew
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