From: Randy Kramer <rhkramer@...>
Date: 2005-08-12T01:40:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby report generation tool

On Wednesday 10 August 2005 11:46 pm, Greg Brown wrote:
> My job is paying me to work on this project despite the fact that it is
> under the GPL, therefore the more requests you make, the longer I can
> justify working on this instead of the (gulp) .Net system they've been
> developing.

This is probably pretty far OT for your current project, but I'll mention it 
anyway, in the interests of saving you from .Net ;-)

I need something that would take text in TWiki markup (with some variations) 
and convert it to (X)HTML.  The source of the text could be (and ideally is) 
anything (from "plain text" files (with markup) to similar (marked up) text 
stored in a database or directly from a plain text editor (like nedit)).

Ideally, it would also feed into an (X)HTML renderer / browser that would be 
"under the control" of the "something".  In other words, sort of like a push 
technology--the HTML renderer/browser displays what it is told to display 
(what it is sent, when it is sent) rather than having the user work in the 
browser to, for example, change pages.

Initially (but hopefully not for long), the HTML renderer might be limited to 
displaying text sent to it.  Later it would be nice:
   * if it was closer to a real browser such that it had the tabs feature, and 
could follow links on the "remotely controlled" page in new tabs
   * it could display pictures and so forth (beyond plain text)

I've noted the recent thread where Hal Fulton is looking for a simple HTML 
renderer and will be following that with interest.

regards,
Randy Kramer