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At 23:28 15/12/2000, Michel Rodriguez wrote: >I have a problem, and I would like to know if there is any way to solve >it in a generic, XML clean way. I would be particularly interested in >knowing whether XSLT could be up to the task. > >I am converting files from a word processor format (MIF) to XML. > >I use a 2-pass process: first go from MIF to a first XML file then from >this to the final XML file. > >The first pass, essentially consists in turning each character or >paragraph style in the original file into a an element. The result is a >"flat" XML file: it lacks the "superstructure" of enclosing XML elements >(list items are tagged as such but lists are not for example). > >The second pass is then of course to wrap those elements around the low >level ones. And this is the one that's causing me problems. > >I would like to use a mechanism similar to what Frame does with their own >"Conversion Tables": using a table to describe the content of wrapping >tags with a regexp-like syntax. > >The example below uses a table like: > > officers : person[officer]+ > perslist : officers, person+ > >But my real software uses rules as complex as > stdtitle : stddes*, stddesmo?, reaf?, stdcoll?, titlemod?, rev?, title+ I would strongly recommend Omnimark for this job. This is bread-and-butter work for an Omnimark program (which combines both regular-expressions and element rules). Good luck, J ------------------------- James Robertson Step Two Designs Pty Ltd SGML, XML & HTML Consultancy Illumination: an out-of-the-box Intranet solution http://www.steptwo.com.au/ jamesr@s...
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