RE: [xsl] grouping + global variable (?) (was re: regexs, group ing (?) and XSLT2?)

[David.Pawson@xxxxxxxxxxx]

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Wendell Piez

    
    I do hope this thread provokes others to contribute.
    
 
    Well up-conversion has been going on along as e-text has. 
    But XML is only now beginning to catch up to where Omnimark 
    and even Perl were years ago.

Omnimark is well worth the investment for up-transforms.

    

    
   

    

    

    
    You need a way to trap and fix bad incoming tagging before 
    it gets into your system, where it's expensive to deal with.

http://mercury.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup/ may provide a solution.



    
    A plain-text editing window is appealing (many writers like 
    their keyboards), but you're going to need at least a 
    "galley" preview on input, before commit, or you're going 
    to go insane. A real grammar for your syntax would be even better.

Two options spring to mind.
The 'wiki' markup option, as exounded by Rick.
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/03/03/sgmlwiki.html

I like it, others don't.

The second is a thing I called uphill. Basically parsing
plain text, looking for linefeed counts, e.g, Two prior
represents this 'para' as a heading.

I hacked it out in Python, then moved it to Java.
Either will work with regular input. 

  
    
    If it were me I'd be inclined to see how far I could go 
    with XSLT 2. But then, I like XSLT. I am actually fairly 
    hopeful that XSLT 2 processors will be strong contenders in 
    this space.

http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/rev2/regex2.html#d13259e181
shows the basics.

HTH DaveP

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