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Re: A replacement for Info
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Thien-Thi Nguyen |
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Re: A replacement for Info |
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Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:55:15 +0200 |
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() address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès)
() Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:48:17 +0200
> It would be cool if Texinfo were able to produce SXML, a format
> directly translatable to/from XML, directly.
Honestly, with Guile 2, translating from XML to SXML boils down to
calling ‘xml->sxml’, which is easy enough.
I didn't want to overstate the case, but what you say is true enough.
If the XML backend didn’t already exist, I would suggest using a
custom sexp-based format instead, though. That would be easier than
SXML for elisp, which doesn’t have tools like sxml-match.
What is ‘sxml-match’ and how would a renderer use it?
Anyway, some custom is required; SXML alone is insufficient. I think
full custom is not indicated, however; SXML is fine for some parts.
Anyone interested in looking over a full-custom sexp-based document
extraction / interpolation system (that feeds makeinfo), please see:
http://www.gnuvola.org/software/guile-baux/
To play, install Guile (1.8.7 seems ok) and do:
git clone http://www.gnuvola.org/software/guile-baux.git
cd guile-baux
make
then look at doc/snippets, which is a "texinfo snippet archive". Its
format is undocumented, but you can get a rough idea by looking at the
documentation for module ‘(guile-baux ts-base)’, which is the one that
actually slides the sexps to/from disk.
Next, modify the comment preceding some module's exported procedure and
invoke make again, to trace the change propagation (not only to snippets
but also beyond, to guile-baux.info).
To get back on topic, the points i wish to demonstrate are: (a) indexing
requires integers; (b) full-custom requires more code than some-custom;
(c) interpolation and rendering have similar data access patterns and
thus similar data format requirements (IMHO, one is a special case of
the other, but i'm not sure which is which!).
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- Re: A replacement for Info, (continued)
- Re: A replacement for Info, Richard Stallman, 2012/08/14
- Re: A replacement for Info, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2012/08/14
- Re: A replacement for Info, Richard Stallman, 2012/08/15
- Re: A replacement for Info, Nala Ginrut, 2012/08/14
- Re: A replacement for Info, Nala Ginrut, 2012/08/14
- Re: A replacement for Info, Ludovic Courtès, 2012/08/14
- Re: A replacement for Info,
Thien-Thi Nguyen <=
- Re: A replacement for Info, Ludovic Courtès, 2012/08/14
- Re: A replacement for Info, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2012/08/14
Re: A replacement for Info, Patrice Dumas, 2012/08/13
Re: A replacement for Info, Stefan Monnier, 2012/08/13
Re: A replacement for Info, Richard Stallman, 2012/08/13