RE: parsing post script

Actually I dont need to render a PS file, but instead I've got to parse an
existing file and try to make sense out of it, as in, I should be able to
extract the data.
How tough would that be with XSLT and what other approach could I follow.
Right now, I'm manually reading the values enclosed in brackets()... which
is only a hack to get to the data...
kr.
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>   Guys, I require to parse a PS file. I know that its
> possible to render a PS
>   file with XSLT, but is the reverse possible?
>   Thanks,
>   Karthikeyan.r
>
> It would be very hard to produce any usable Postscript directly from
> XSLT, and virtually impossible to read PostScript.
>
> PostScript is a fully featured programming language. It is no doubt
> theoretically possible to write a PostScript interpreter in XSLT, but
> it would be thousands of lines of code, and rather slow, compared to
> using a real postscript interpreter as built in to a
> PS printer, or an emulator such as ghostscript.
>
> David
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