Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] Re: Migration to libxml2

[<las...@Su...>]

Dan Mueth wrote:
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> On 22 May 2001, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
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> > L=E1szl=F3 Kov=E1cs <las...@su...> writes:
> >
> > > > (now we moved to XML and UTF-8 so this is history)
> > > Happy people:-) I wonder if it could be made history for Gnome too.=

> >
> > No need to "move" -- just delegate:
> >
> >     Don't install SGML files but "convert" them at installation time =
to
> >     XML (sgmlnorm and s2x can do wonders).  Proposed earlier by me.
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> Karl - Thanks for the suggestion :)
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> This may be a really nice way to circumvent the encoding issues and
> support SGML documents without much work.
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> Does anybody know exactly what happens w/r/t encodings when we do
> something like:
>    sgml2xml -b UTF-8 foo.sgml > foo.xml
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> It looks like this uses the encoding detection in SP to convert from an=

> arbitrary unknown encoding to UTF?
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> Does anybody see any problems with using a call like this in ScrollKeep=
er
> to convert any SGML docs to XML for further processing by libxml2/xslt =
in
> ScrollKeeper?
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> This way we can keep our SGML support without having to do much work or=

> add bloat to ScrollKeeper or libxml2.
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> Dan

I tried to build OpenSP on both Solaris and Linux and I failed because
of some C++ related problem coming from the source. =


On the other hand sgml2xml seemed extremely poorly documented, I couldnt
really figure out how to use it. Maybe it needs more looking.

If the SGML encoding issue takes a long time to be sorted, we might want
to consider separate releases for SGML and XML i18n support. The i18n
improvements work for XML that I worked on was finished a couple of days
ago and the SGML encoding issue is the only remaining problem right now.

Laszlo