Frank Boumphrey wrote:
> 
> I had been strugling with JADE on and off for about 100 hrs because I needed
> a parser to teach a course (In fact in the end I had to write my own parser
> which was MUCH quicker for me to do!!). 

I think that this is your problem. Jade is not a parser. nsgmls is a
parser, and it takes essentially no training to learn how to use it:

nsgmls foo.sgml

or

nsgmls -wxml foo.xml

Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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