Received: from webgate.proteosys.de (mail.proteosys-ag.com [62.225.9.49]) by lucy.proteosys (8.11.0/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id f073uCp02794 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 04:56:16 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f070a9731144 . for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 01:36:17 +0100 Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.30]) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f070ZuM05865 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 01:35:56 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C0785D.C8A63000" Received: from mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.56]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA07190 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 01:35:56 +0100 (MET) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f070ZtM05859 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 01:35:55 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <13.A239788D@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 1:35:52 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 478045 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 01:35:48 +0100 Received: from ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.234]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA28333 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 01:35:47 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA28826 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 01:35:48 +0100 Received: from oxmail.ox.ac.uk (oxmail3.ox.ac.uk [129.67.1.180]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f070ZmU10219 for ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 01:35:48 +0100 (MET) Received: from heraldgate2.oucs.ox.ac.uk ([163.1.2.50] helo=frontend2.herald.ox.ac.uk ident=exim) by oxmail.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 14F3oJ-0001QM-00 for LATEX-L@urz.uni-heidelberg.de; Sun, 07 Jan 2001 00:35:47 +0000 Received: from max85.public.ox.ac.uk ([192.76.27.85] helo=spqr2.oucs.ox.ac.uk ident=rahtz) by frontend2.herald.ox.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 14F3oH-0003Qz-00 for LATEX-L@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 00:35:45 +0000 In-Reply-To: <200101061950.OAA03845@pluto.math.albany.edu> References: <200101061950.OAA03845@pluto.math.albany.edu> Return-Path: X-Mailer: emacs 20.6.1 (via feedmail 8 Q); VM 6.86 under Emacs 20.6.1 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: GELLMU progress Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 23:19:34 +0100 Message-ID: <14935.39414.219844.570581@spqr2.oucs.ox.ac.uk> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Sebastian Rahtz" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: "Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L" Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3643 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0785D.C8A63000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable William F. Hammond writes: > Actually, I am more interested in getting a copy for Info trees than > in a TEI copy. (And there is now an SGML version of Texinfo thanks = to > Daniele Giacomini that formats to Texinfo.) I guess I thought that > TEI fans might bite. TEI fans just write TEI, I suspect.... > Are you saying that it's easier to code translations from XML using > lex and yacc descendants rather than using standard XML tools such as > sgmlspl, jade, or xt? I find that hard to believe. (Of course, the at a minimum, you have to get a flex patched to handle Unicode; it exists, but its not standard. you *can* write an XML parser in flex, as Richard Goerwitz has demonstrated, but its not trivial. > The power of sgmlspl (though not the speed) can match that of any > method except possibly when one wants to descend into CDATA segments. er, nonsense. sgmlspl provides no full access to the document tree, as DOM or XPATH do. you have to code it yourself, which is a bore. Sebastian "TEI fan" Rahtz ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0785D.C8A63000 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: GELLMU progress

William F. Hammond writes:
 > Actually, I am more interested in getting = a copy for Info trees than
 > in a TEI copy.  (And there is now an = SGML version of Texinfo thanks to
 > Daniele Giacomini that formats to = Texinfo.)  I guess I thought that
 > TEI fans might bite.

TEI fans just write TEI, I suspect....

 > Are you saying that it's easier to code = translations from XML using
 > lex and yacc descendants rather than using = standard XML tools such as
 > sgmlspl, jade, or xt?  I find that = hard to believe.  (Of course, the

at a minimum, you have to get a flex patched to handle = Unicode; it
exists, but its not standard. you *can* write an XML = parser in flex,
as Richard Goerwitz has demonstrated, but its not = trivial.

 > The power of sgmlspl (though not the speed) = can match that of any
 > method except possibly when one wants to = descend into CDATA segments.

er, nonsense. sgmlspl provides no full access to the = document tree, as
DOM or XPATH do. you have to code it yourself, which = is a bore.

Sebastian "TEI fan" Rahtz

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