RE: Can XSL transform XML to RTF?

Sebastian wrote:

>sotiris@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
> > 
> > Can I write XSL which transforms an XML tree to RTF?
>
>depends how well you know RTF, I'd say. Now that XSL has allows 
>plain text output (ie you are not longer constrained to write
>valid XML), you can write out the Microsoft gobbledygook easily.
>
> > For starters I want to manage font type, size and
> > paragraph indents.
> > Can this be done using XSL?  Can someone provide
> > a simple example?
>
>generate a trivial document doing what you want in Word. save as
>RTF. examine the result. replace wet towel around head, and take pill
>for splitting headache. cut up RTF and paste into output portion of 
>your XSL stylesheets. run XSL engine. load result into
>Word. scream. repeat process until barely human.

Apart from the screaming, seems quite reasonable.

What if.....

 I want to put out non-printable control sequences, for
wp's that don't use ASCII encoding?

Can I use Unicode low end control characters?
Does the fact that XSL is XML limit me in some way?
(Admission, xml.dcl is something I use, not somethig
I understand ;-(

Is there a means of getting any random hex digit into
the output tree?

Curious, DaveP




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