undocumented feature

Monte Goulding monte at sweattechnologies.com
Thu Aug 28 01:06:06 EDT 2003


> > So all we need now is a way to set the style info for translation using
> > inheritance along the object model and I can throw away the style sheet
> > stuff in in libXMLtext ;-)
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Monte
> 
> I was looking at revXMLText(), now that's a handy thing to have 
> available. I couldn't find libXMLtext. My own approach is to throw out 
> XML altogether. I love the way the htmlText parser ignores tag sets it 
> doesn't recognize. You can use any extensible tags you like and include 
> HTML style within the same document. Course that means building simple 
> pull-parser tricks to replace the XMLtree configuration. I guess it 
> comes down to where do you want to do a lot of extra work. By the way 
> if you find a way to throw out style sheets for rendering XML data 
> based on DOM and some kind of universal standard you come up with then 
> you are going to make a lot of DBMS people very happy.
> 
> Imagine this:
> 
> <root>
>    <helloWorldApp>
>      <title><p></p><p></p><p><font size="34"><b>hello world 
> !</b></font></p><p></p><p></p></title>
>      <bodytext><p><font size="34"><b>What's UP?</b></font></p></bodytext>
>    </helloWorldApp>
> </root>
> 

LibXMLtext is on my site:

http://www.sweattechnologies.com/rev/sweatXMLtext.rev

Cheers

Monte



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