On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > but unfortunately, there is no easy
> > way to derive a decent plain text version from an XML base...
>
> Hmmm. converting one text format to another. Sounds like a job for perl
> ;-)
>
> Seriously - it should be possible to create a XSLT stylesheet that will
> output plain-text, then use XML::Sablotron or one of the other processors
> to generate the text from the XML.
Sadly thats not the case. XSLT is not well suited to the task of
outputting text documents. It has no facilities for doing things like page
widths, indenting, bullet points, etc, for plain text. I have tried this,
with the source of the digests being in XHTML, but its harder than it
first sounds. You really need to convert to a text format that does have
all of these features, such as *roff...
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