Re: [Tclxml-users] Question about examples/xmlwc

[Steve B. <Ste...@zv...>]

Larry W. Virden wrote:
> I've got the latest tclxml from the CVS repository, and installed it
> with my Tcl 8.4 environment.
> 
> In the examples directory, the README says:
> 
> REC-xml-20001006.xml 
>         The W3C XML spec in XML format. A handy file to run xmlwc over
>         to test your build. You should get this output with the command
>              tclsh8.3 xmlwc REC-xml-20001006.xml 
>         :
>  
>            2929   14978  116827 REC-xml-20001006.xml 
> 
> However, I am seeing this:
> 
> $ tclsh8.4 ./xmlwc REC-xml-20001006.xml
>    2954   14966  117568 REC-xml-20001006.xml
> $ ls -l *xml
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 lwv26    dept26    201918 Dec 28  2000 REC-xml-20001006.xml
> 
> Since the numbers are differing so wildly, I thought I would ask here and
> see if anyone else had actually tried this all out.

I get the same numbers.  To verify, I ran the document through
an empty XSL stylesheet.  This strips the markup.  Then I removed
the XML declaration, resulting in a completely plain text file.
wc produces:

[localhost:~/tclxml-main/examples] steve% wc stripped.txt
     2951   17360  121252 stripped.txt

Fewer lines, but more words and characters.

I'll look into it a bit further.  One thing to do is save
the text being counted by xmlwc and then compare against
the text file generated above.

BTW, I often use this program when writing papers and articles
that have a word limit, so I have an interest in making sure
that it is accurate.

Cheers,
Steve Ball

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