Re: question for the xml-experts

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

Luigi and Khaled,

thanks a lot for your replies! Luigi: I had a look at python lxml; it  
looks very powerful and interesting, and I will try and see if can  
make use of it. Why do you translate your xml sources into tex instead  
of using the mkiv mechanism for processing xml, is it because of speed?

Khaled: I have to see if I can tweak the OpenOffice docbook converter  
to keep more of the formatting; in its default state, it drops too  
much important stuff...

Right now, I have followed Patrick's advice. I've installed saxon9 and  
am writing a xslt stylesheet to translate the openoffice xml into a  
cleaner and easier to handle format. I'm making progress... Maybe we  
should put something like this on the wiki and make it a collaborative  
effort - I can only write rules for stuff that occurs in my documents,  
and that is of course only a subset of what OpenOffice has, so it  
would be good to add rules as people find interesting features.

All best

Thomas

On Feb 15, 2009, at 10:39 AM, luigi scarso wrote:

> If you know python
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/PyUNO_bridge
> http://opendocumentfellowship.com/projects/odfpy
> For xml the choice is
> http://codespeak.net/lxml/
>
> A native xml db, with XQuery and python binding
> http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/berkeley-db/xml/index.html
>
>
>
> And this is my experience :
> I'm programming in TeX (with context) , lua / python (they are
> similar) and xslt .
> For every project  if I can I use lxml to manage xml sources, because
> it includes xslt but not viceversa.
> The goal is to translate xml in tex in the quickest way, and let mkiv
> to do the hard word.
> I have not a good feeling with xslt, because is not so powerful as
> lxml, and clearly is not a competitor of TeX .
>
> If I need storage, dbxml is good, and XQuery+lxml is powerful  
> enought .
>
> OO has also docbook exporter
> http://www.docbook.org/
> docbook
> is rich and with a good collection of xsl stylesheets to translate  
> xml to html
> but maybe is ...too much .
>
> -- 
> luigi
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