Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] Migration to libxml2

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Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> =

> On 18 May 2001 10:44:54 -0500, Dan Mueth wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 17 May 2001, L=E1szl=F3 Kov=E1cs wrote:
> >
> > > 1. The SGML parser is not perfect, there are DocBook tags it doesnt=
 know
> > > about. This is easy to fix though, I already sent a couple of patch=
es to
> > > Daniel and I will send more.
> >
> > I don't understand this, but I'm probably just being dumb.  What sort=
 of
> > tags does the SGML parser need to know about?  Most tags are defined =
in
> > the DocBook DTD, not in the parser.
> =

> I think your confusion comes from calling this a parser.  It's not a
> fully-fledged SGML parser, just a "hack" to allow us to process out SGM=
L
> docs.  I'm still a bit torn here, but I think we might want to look at
> taking advantage of the code in jade or openjade to do a real SGML to
> XML conversion for us, on the fly (since it seems to only take a
> fraction of a second for the conversion using sx/osx).  I don't know ho=
w
> unfriendly that would be.
>     Greg
> =


I have to rectify this, the problems are not because of the parser, but
because of the poor quality of the DocBook/SGML docs I am parsing. This
is the latest Ximian Gnome docs, some of them having embarassing errors
in them.

Laszlo