Re: [Freemarker-devel] Subprojects

[Daniel D. <dd...@fr...>]

Tuesday, December 31, 2002, 12:16:55 AM, Jonathan Revusky wrote:

> On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 17:53, Daniel Dekany wrote:
>> Monday, December 30, 2002, 3:47:19 PM, Jonathan Revusky wrote:
[snip]
> Like, maybe we could implement the recursive template-matching type
> stuff in FM, but replace what there is incrementally, so that when our
> FM template hits an element that it doesn't know how to process, it
> delegates to the XSLT machinery. Gradually, we would add macros and/or
> transforms such that it knows how to process all elements and the XSLT
> would melt away. But I don't know if this is feasible... (I somehow
> doubt it...)

%-/ I hardly believe that we can mix that messy-huge XSL with some FTL
stuff... or rather, I hardly believe that it would be easier than
writing something from scratch.

> My worry is that, if we can't define a set of incremental steps from
> here to there, it's really difficult. The reason I'd like to get started
> on this is that I feel like a lot of secondary effects could come out of
> this in terms of making FreeMarker more capable -- using it to tackle a
> reasonably significant documentation generation sort of thing.

That's sure. Just, this is again that we have to see the priorities of
things. Personally I would like to see matured name-spaces, date/time
support, terse formatting, communication between child and parent
user-defined directives, good FreemarkerServlet, and all bugs in the
tracker fixed. Everything else is a 100th order thing from my POV in
the FM space.

[snip]
>> elements and roles can do (for starting, at least). What I would keep
>> is the idea that the whole Manual is one big XML.
>
> Well, AFAICS; this is almost a non-issue. Several smaller XML's can be
> treated as one big XML via entities, right?
[snip]

If you remember the old stuff has used separate XML for each page...
now, this is what I don't want. Of course, the "one big XML" would use
more physical files and entities, like the current DocBook stuff does,
this was not a question.

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Best regards,
 Daniel Dekany