Re: your mail

On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 03:28:20PM -0400, Paul Tremblay wrote:
I'm responding to my own email. Please ignore this 
message. I forgot to put a subject line in, so I re-sent it.
I just don't want to start two threads, so go to the one with 
attributes and nested lists.

Thanks

Paul

> 
> How difficult it is to transform attributes into nestd lists?
> 
> I have this text:
> 
> <para listid= 1" level="1">text 1</para>
> <para listid="1" level="2">text 2</para>
> <para>text 3</para>
> <para listid="1" level="1">text 4</para>
> <para listid="1" level="1">text 5</para>
> <para listid="1" level="1">text 6</para>
> <para listid="1" level="2">text 7</para>
> <para listid="1" level="1">text 8</para>
> <para> text 9 </para>
> <para listid="2" level="1">text 10</para>
> 
> I want to transform this into:
> 
> <list id="1" level="1">
> 	<para>text 1</para>
> 		<list id="1" level="2">
> 			<para>text 2</para>
> 			<para> text 3</para>
> 		</list>
> 	<para>text 4 </para>
> 	<para>text 5 </para>
> 	<para>text 6 </para>
> 		<list id="1" level ="2">
> 			<para> text 7</para>
> 		</list>
> 	<para> text 8</para>
> 	<para> text 9 </para>
> </list>
> 
> I am not looking for a detailed, specific answer to this problem. I am
> writing a script to transfrom RTF to XML, and I am trying to force RTF
> into lists (such as <list> </list>). The problem is that RTF might
> start a list at the beginning of a document and might run the whole
> list through the document, running it over a table and other
> divisions.  
> 
> For example, the creator of an RTF document would start a
> list number on page one in the middle of a table, and then use the
> "skip" feature for maybe 5 more pages. In the meantime the table would
> have stopped. No mumbers would appear on these five pages, and then
> the uses would start the numbering again on page 5. This forces me to
> have to break the list before the table ends in order to avoid
> overlapping tags.
> 
> The result is that some of the list is between <list> </list>, and
> others is not.
> 
> Orignially I had planned to keep things this way. After all, it is
> poor practice to abuse numbering in this way. (The headings in Word
> allow for the logical division of a document--not lists).
> 
> But now I am wondering if I shouldn't try to force the list between
> the <list> </list>. Rather, I should let the user of my script use
> xslt to create <list> if s/he chooses.
> 
> Just to be clear, as the script is written now, it does a pretty good
> job with lists. Only when the RTF does crazy things with lists does
> the output turn out a little inconsistent, though still well-formed.
> 
> So what do you think--am I adding functionality to my script by
> forcing things between <list> </list>, or should I let the user decide
> what to do with RTF's numbering scheme? 
> 
> One last thought: the script becomes much easier if the user decides
> what to do with the lists!
> 
> Sorry for the lenght of the email
> 
> Paul
>  
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