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

[sigurd@12move.de (Karl Pflästerer)]

On 15 Mrz 2005, reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 09 2005, Karl Pflästerer wrote:
>
>> as some of you may know the Gnus FAQ exists at the moment in two
>> parallel versions which have to be synchronized manually: a XML version
>> (which should be the master version) and a Texi version (which should
>> get automagically created out of the XML version but is written by
>> hand).
>>
>> To achieve the transformation I wrote a program in Scheme (I used PLT
>> Scheme) which uses the SSAX lib to parse the XML data.

> Could you elaborate which programs and/or libraries are required to
> run this program?  I don't know anything about Scheme.

You simply need mzscheme; it's part of DrScheme but can also be
downloaded seperately (IIRC).
           http://www.plt-scheme.org/software/mzscheme/ 
describes that beter.


>> #! /bin/sh
>> #|
>> exec mzscheme -mr $0 ${1+"$@"}
> [...]
>
> I can only find the following files related to "mzscheme" on my system

I don't know if DrScheme or MzScheme comes exists as a Suse package but
there are Linux ports.


[...]
>> (require (lib "ssax.ss" "ssax")
>>          (lib "sxpath.ss" "ssax")
>>          (lib "sxml-tree-trans.ss" "ssax")
>
> I didn't find any matches for those (using the package information
> search).

These are part of the PLT Scheme distribution.


> PS: Could you please send me the resulting `gnus-faq.texi'?  Either on
>     the list or by PM.

I'll send it the next days.


   Karl