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Re: Quark Express



Quark doesn't have some kind of tagged import format? Most publishing 
programs do.

It doesn't need to be XML. If a clean subset could be defined to do what 
had to be done, XSLT could target it using the 'text' output method (even 
if it had angle brackets).

You wouldn't get "lights-out" publishing this way, but it could save you a 
bunch of work. But it all depends on what Quark can import, whether styles 
can be used, etc. etc. Heck, if Quark can import HTML, you might even be 
able to go that way (circuitous, but hey).

Cheers,
Wendell

At 07:09 PM 6/7/01, Matt wrote:
>jim jim writes:
>
>  > Is it possible to convert an XML file using XSLT to Quark.
>
>Ouch. I haven't personally tried this, but a colleague of mine has
>analyzed the Quark file format in detail, and I heard from her that
>that format is:
>
>  * Very complex;
>  * Poorly (if not un-) documented; and
>  * Contains angle-bracketed structures that are not well-formed XML
>
>Since an angle-bracketed structure that isn't well-formed XML is the
>one thing XSLT can't output, you may have some trouble. Though maybe
>you could pull some fancy trick with CDATA sections or character
>entities. But it might be easier to use OmniMark, or write a SAX
>filter in Python. Either of those will let you output anything you
>darn well please.
>
>Matt
>
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