From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60025 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus-FAQ: xml to texi with Scheme prog Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 07:47:54 +0900 Message-ID: <87br9cty3p.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111445318 5856 80.91.229.2 (21 Mar 2005 22:48:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:48:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M8566@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Mar 21 23:48:37 2005 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13] ident=mail) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDVfy-0001M1-OA for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:47:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DDVgz-0000Zu-00; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:48:13 -0600 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1DDVgs-0000Zo-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:48:06 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DDVgr-0000N5-E3 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 16:48:05 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1DDVgq-0000UU-00 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:48:04 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DDVed-0001DY-Po for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:45:47 +0100 Original-Received: from yokohama2-61-203-152-133.ap.0038.net ([61.203.152.133]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:45:47 +0100 Original-Received: from miles by yokohama2-61-203-152-133.ap.0038.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:45:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: yokohama2-61-203-152-133.ap.0038.net System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Cancel-Lock: sha1:Au+g6yDTFqqddMKIxRQblyVrxi0= X-Spam-Score: -4.8 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu X-MailScanner-From: ding-owner+m8566@lists.math.uh.edu X-MailScanner-To: ding-account@gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60025 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60025 Reiner Steib writes: >> (is the implementation hairy enough that it can't be done in elisp >> or awk or something?). > > The main problem is the DocBook/XML parsing, I'd guess. Maybe Karl > can comment on this. Hmmm, I'd say the advisability of using DocBook/XML in the first place is open to question (DocBook seems to be one of those horrid `who cares if the insanely verbose markup completely obscures the contents' markup languages). -Miles -- We have met the enemy, and he is us. -- Pogo