>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Streicher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Martin> I have a PRD implementation working -- took about four hours to write Martin> something to parse the subtleties of the magazine format. Now I need Martin> to emit Quark Tags (and write something general to emit InDesign tags Martin> or HTML or text, too.) I'll probably make some sort of dictionary that Martin> is tunable -- all of the dictionaries will have italic, just the Martin> sigils will change from one format to another (sigil or tag, whichever Martin> is a more accurate description.) You should emit a nice XML representation, then use Template Toolkit and Template::Plugin::XML::LibXML to do views on your data spitting them out in the various ways. That way, the parser is separate from the translator, and you can view and select the intermediate results in various ways. I say this only beacuse I'm doing roughtly the same thing with a bunch of FrameMaker files for my courseware... first, get a parser from MIF to <XML>, and then build the right translations from XML to my desired formats. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
