From: Gour <gour@...>
Date: 2003-09-30T03:49:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Martin Fowler and Ruby

James Britt (jamesUNDERBARb@seemyemail.com) wrote:

> 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.

This doesn't bother me too much since it's always possible to map some
DocBook tags in some LaTeX-like equivalent. Actually, I'm thinking about
ConTeXt package.

> 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.

Thank you for pointing me at Rimport. I'll take a look in order to learn
something :D

Sincerely,
Gour

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