undocumented feature

[Mark Brownell]

Wednesday, Monte Goulding wrote:

> 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>

Mark