From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2003-09-30T00:04:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Martin Fowler and Ruby

Gour wrote:

> James Britt (jamesUNDERBARb@seemyemail.com) wrote:
> 
> 
>>I wrote an article on how I used REXML's stream parser to populate 
>>templates from an MXL dccument:
>>http://www.rubyxml.com/articles/REXML/Stream_Parsing_with_REXML
> 
> 
> Thanks. Nice reading.

Thanks.

> 
> What do you think about using the same technology for transforming DocBook
> documents into Latex-like ones?

I'm not that familiar with Latex, but from what I understand it should 
be quite doable.  The difficulty may reside in how much (or little) the 
two formats map to each other.

In Rimport I use a somewhat different approach (perhaps similar to what 
Fowler describes) where the code manually walks the tree, passing 
elements and subtrees off to dynamically-invoked  methods based on 
element name and context.  This may give you better control that 
straight stream parsing,  plus it saves you the trouble of having to 
build your own subtrees.


James Britt
james_b AT neurogami DOT com

> 
> Sincerely,
> Gour
>