RE: XSLT text output - better formatting possible?

[James Robertson <jamesr at steptwo dot com dot au>]

At 03:03 26/10/2000, Weakliem, Gordon wrote:

>Or since the output is C++ code, you could just pipe the output through a
>pretty priter (with no additional markup), there's lots of free ones
>available, one that comes to mind is GNU indent.  Seems like the effort
>required to get the XSLT processor to give nice output would be orders of
>magnitude more than just applying an external program.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sebastian Rahtz
> > [mailto:sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 9:27 AM
> > To: xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
> > Subject: Re: XSLT text output - better formatting possible?
> >
> >
> > Lyn K. Finman writes:
> >  > QUESTION:  is there a better way to generate basic text
> > files from XML
> >  > than specifying "text" output from XSLT and liberal use of
> > <xsl:text>
> >
> > How about using "text" output, and interspersing troff markup in it,
> > and running the result through groff, which would make fine ASCII
> > output?

Alternatively, you might want to explore using Omnimark instead
of XSLT. This has quite a few features related to text formatting
(including line-wrapping), and will give you absolute control over
how every character is written out ...

J



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