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Re: Formatting text output handler [WAS : Re: Formating to text]
Eric van der Vlist <vdv@dyomedea.com> writes:
> [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>]
> For those who have followed this thread and are interested by the
> riddle, the transformation can be done by the attached stylesheet.
>
> Now, this is so verbose and slow that I wonder if writing a formatting
> text output handler wouldn't really be the best solution.
My approach to this problem is usually to have a stylesheet output
minimal formating information. Eg: everything is on one line and
contains the following tags:
<nl/>: newline
<inc/>: increment indent
<dec/>: decrement indent
Then a script (in Perl, Python or whatever language you like) converts
those into something suitable.
That's how I turn my resume, which lives as an XML document, into
ASCII (ok, I also use fmt and recode for part of the conversion).
Regards,
ldd
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