Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: conditionalization of XML

[Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 05:43:38PM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> > (1) You add support for ?if? and friends to xsltproc.  Probably the
> >     fastest route to a complete solution.
> > 
> > (2) You tell me you'll take a patch from me to implement them.  I'd
> >     have to learn the xsltproc code, so it would take longer, but I 
> >     can do that.
> 
>   Honnestly 1/ and 2/ are not acceptable. Now if someone decides
> to standardize something like <?if?> then it's a big mess.
> Moreover if this can be done by a small and fast external preprocessing,
> why try to put everything in the same tool ? 

Eric has written a tool, xmlif, to do this, and it's available in
xmlto-0.0.11pre6.  What's a 'big mess', incidentally?  Do 'if' et al
need to be namespaced, you mean?

Tim.
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