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At 7:01 PM -0800 1/14/02, Dare Obasanjo wrote: >Fine, so you state that his task is not what XSLT was designed for but what >would you suggest he should have used instead to perform this task in a >standards compliant manner? As Paul T mentioned earlier, DOM and SAX are too >low level for such a task which leaves XSLT or simple treating the XML file as >plain text and parsing it with Perl or some other scripting language. > I personally don't care whether or not Moertl uses a standards compliant tool to perform this task. Use what works. If I were tasked with his problem, I'd use XSLT to transform to TeXML <http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/texml> and then the IBM alphaWorks tools to transform that to TeX. Of course then I wouldn't be able to publish whining articles about how a hammer's a horrible tool based on my experiment using it to scale fish. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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