> On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Amir Karger wrote:
> > That doesn't sound too bad, does it? The last time I remember lars talking
> > about it, he wanted to make it a bit more like html (xml?) where you'd have
> > begins and ends, not just begins, and perhaps better structuring for
> > nesting. But that was months, perhaps a year ago. It's obviously not a very
> > high priority, although as I mentioned there are some people clamoring for
> > XML now, and I don't know if that would change matters. The other issue is
> > that the change in file format might reflect the change in buffer structure,
> > which I don't know when that's planned for.
>
> I'm such a clamorer. But I don't think clamoring will make any
> difference. Code will :-). Next chance I get to spend on free software
> projects (after I sort out my debian projects) will be to grok the LyX
> kernel and think about XML. But that's no small task :-)
We are currently building a prototype for next year's project and I
surprisingly (*cough* ;-)) decided to switch our file format to something
'XMLish'. Naturally I had to write some very rudimentary parser.
It doesn't handle any fancy stuff yet (and probably won't, since we do
not need full XML support), but maybe it could serve as a base for LyX.
I put it on
http://mathematik.htwm.de/Software/LyX/element.h and element.cc
if anybody is interested, take it, otherwise leave it. I probably won't
try to get it into LyX myself.
Andre'
PS:
> Unless someone beats me to it...
Well...
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Andre' Poenitz ...................... [EMAIL PROTECTED]
