Re: Gnus-FAQ: xml to texi with Scheme prog

[sigurd@12move.de (Karl Pflästerer)]

On 20 Mrz 2005, snogglethorpe@gmail.com wrote:

> Should the generated file be in the archive at all?  Hmmm, I guess
> scheme is an unusual enough language that you can't rely on developers
> having it installed (is the implementation hairy enough that it can't
> be done in elisp or awk or something?).

Well it was easiest with Scheme; it could be done with any language
where you have libs (or write yourself some) with which you can parse
and transform the XML source.  Scheme with SSAX libs works very good
here (and shouldn't be sooo unusual in a community of (X)Emacs users).

>
>>  Should we add something like...
>> 
>>   (insert "@ignore\n   "
>>           "arch-tag: "
>>           "64dc5692-edb4-4848-a965-7aa0181acbb8"
>>           "\n@end ignore")
>> 
>> ... in `main' in `xml2texi.scm'?  I guess this would make sure that it
>> is not confused with the arch tag of the file `xml2texi.scm'.  Miles?
>
> Yes that would probably work.  The rules for finding arch-tag: in a
> file are roughly: (1)  somewhere in the first or last 1K (2K?) of the
> file, and (2) string "arch-tag:" on a line preceded by nothing but
> puncuation or whitespace.  So splitting the "arch-tag:" in the insert
> would be a good idea (e.g., use "arch-" "tag:" instead of
> "arch-tag:").

A solution for this should be trivial.


   KP