Re: Alternative to XSLTHL?

>  So in the case of Jacek, it seems the answer to your response
> (Dimitre) is "the grammar is PHP, and I want to be able to parse
> a PHP exerpt while formating a DITA document by using XSLT (to
> add some info to the PHP code to provide syntax highliting in
> HTML)".


Why does this sound so weird, or am I the only one thinking so?

While this could be accomplished in XSLT, any other compiler-compiler
system in any other language could be used, too.

I've never imagined (and I don't find myself excited) to parse PHP in XSLT.

On the other side, generating PHP code (and any other PL code) with
XSLT seems more interesting.


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On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Florent Georges <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jacek Iwanski wrote:
>
> B Hi,
>
>> > 1. What is XSLTHL ?
>
>> B  A single JAR file with syntax highlighting module to be
>> invoked with Saxon, Xalan, etc.
>
>> B  http://sourceforge.net/projects/xslthl/
>
>> > 2. What has to be parsed? Grammar + example.
>
>> B  The grammmar is DITA, but all code to parse lies within
>> <codeblock> element.
>
> B More precisely, the grammar is the grammar of any supported
> language <http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xslthl/>, for
> instance if you embed JavaScript or PHP into DITA or DocBook.
> If I am right, XSLTHL is used as an option in the DocBook XSLT
> stylesheets.
>
> B So in the case of Jacek, it seems the answer to your response
> (Dimitre) is "the grammar is PHP, and I want to be able to parse
> a PHP exerpt while formating a DITA document by using XSLT (to
> add some info to the PHP code to provide syntax highliting in
> HTML)".
>
> B Regards,
>
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> Florent Georges
> http://fgeorges.org/