On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 06:48:04 -0800, you wrote: > > > > >Some of us don't mind using XML because it gives us much more > >flexibility to do interesting things with our data quite easily at the > >expense of a little markup. > > Would it be easy to write a function that read the XML and produced > something like the current NEWS format? > > If that's easy, then one option is to suggest that people keep the > original source in XML, with the BUILD process doing the conversion, > but allow people to edit the human-readable version directly if they > prefer.
Duncan TL's suggestion to use Using R for the mark-up structure seems very reasonable to me. Asking package authors to write in XML directly, or anything that would make doing that the path of least resistance, is I think a non-starter. luke -- Luke Tierney University of Iowa Phone: 319-335-3386 Department of Statistics and Fax: 319-335-3017 Actuarial Science 241 Schaeffer Hall email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Iowa City, IA 52242 WWW: http://www.stat.uiowa.edu ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
