From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-06-21T00:13:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Advice for pluggable architecture

On 20 Jun., 16:29, Robert Dober <robert.do...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you both for your input, it showed me that in matter of fact my
> concern about flexibility of the approach was a sign of misconception.
>
> What I really want to provide is not a framework but a toolset, I just
> shall not care about how it is called, it shall just deliver a maximum
> of value for a certain job to do, which happens to be text processing
> (just short of parsing, I guess).
>
> My main problem however is to decide what I want to be done by
> filtering text and what I want to be done by DSL-like template code
> and how to make the two approaches work together.
>
> I guess I am off to the design board again, some rapid prototyping
> might help too.

Are there any particularities about the kind of text processing that
you intend?  I can imagine a lot of different things from line based
conversions and filtering, over regular expression manipulation to
parsing of context free (or even sensitive) grammars.

You might actually discover that the toolset you have in mind is
actually Ruby's standard library because your requirements /
processing options are too different.

Kind regards

robert