Re: [xsl] Is XSLT the right tool for XML to SGML conversions

["Graydon graydon@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 04:18:49PM -0000, David Carlisle d.p.carlisle@xxxxxxxxx scripsit:
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 16:33, Rick Quatro rick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I am at the preliminary stage of looking at a project. The input will be authored in XML, but the output will be SGML. Is XSLT (version 2.0) a reasonable language for doing this? Any pointers to examples, best practices, etc., would be appreciated. Thank you very much.
[snip]
> Can your desired SGML be written to be well formed XML?  if so that's
> the easiest case, XSLT can output it, otherwise you may need to output
> an XML approximation to the desired format and then fix it up with
> perl or some such.

Or you can build a transform that produces a text file as its final
output if the SGML wants to be something other than the XML values of
well-formed.

This is fiddly and annoying and may involve the EXPATH libraries, but it
is possible.

-- Graydon