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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Glossary database
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes: > / Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr> was heard to say: > | On Wednesday 26 January 2000, at 11 h 0, the keyboard of Jorge Godoy > | <godoy@conectiva.com.br> wrote: > | > | > Has anybody here implemented something such as a glossary database? I > | > was thinking about having some files with glossterms and including > | > just the necessary definitions on each book. > | > | I'm afraid this cannot be done in pure SGML (there is no > | BibTeX for SGML) and you have to rely on external processing > | with M4 or ePerl or similar. > > Well, it's really a matter of processing expectations, isn't it? > One could write a stylesheet that had this result. But maybe that's > not pure SGML either :-) Actually, you could have a grove deconstruction/reconstruction into/out of a database. I think some of the folks on the OpenJade team are interested in this. They are making some pretty serious strides on the SGML query system part of the spec. -- .....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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