At 13:54 30/01/2001 +0000, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> 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...
That's true, when XSLT outputs texts, what it's really doing is outputting
a tree from which all non text nodes have disappeared. That can't give you
much formatting unless you are very careful with your <xsl:text>. But then,
filtering that through Text::Autoformat should yield something sensible,
and probably good.
-- robin b.
"Oh no not again !" said the bowl of petunias
