Re: IXIN 1.0 available

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> skribis:

> Right.  Those are defined in the texinfo DTD.  What a1-nf3-mixp does,
> that i don't know how to arrange for a1-nf3-guile2, is to recognize the
> "http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/dtd/4.13/texinfo.dtd"; in the
> ‘DOCTYPE’ declaration, find the associated DTD via map file zomg and
> process it, to finally arrive at:
>
> <!ENTITY copyright  "&#xa9;">

Oh, OK.

> (excerpt from /usr/share/texinfo/texinfo.dtd:391).  IOW, ‘xml->sxml’ is
> too abstracted from the details; it's not the right tool for the job.
> Unfortunately, what is the right tool and how to use it i could not find
> in my admittedly brief stroll through the SXML portions of the Guile
> 2.0.6 manual.  The resolution of this is to improve the documentation so
> that non-prescient programmers like me can figure out how to specify
> such a mapping (presuming that the underlying system is capable of
> processing the DTD, etc).  Maybe that presumption is too much, even.

(I concur that the doc of the sxml modules in Guile 2 is inappropriately
terse, and needs work.)

Regarding DTDs, there are hints in the thread at
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.scheme.ssax-sxml/327>, but nothing
really ideal.

Thanks,
Ludo’.