Re: xywrite and xml

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

Carl Distefano wrote:

> Reply to note from Patricia M Godfrey  Sun, 1
> Jun 2003 12:02:28 -0400
>
> > Why are there MDNMs in a file at all? In XyW4, additive modes
> > are the default;
>
> Actually, the opposite is true: the default MoDe behavior is non-
> additive. For example, if you DeFine some NorMal text and issue
> func M9 or command MD IT, you'll get ≪MDIT≫text≪MDNM≫. Only the
> specific command MD +IT produces ≪MD+IT≫text≪MD-IT≫. So, unless
> the user has gone to lengths to work around this default behavior
> (by customizing the KBD file, etc.), even a Xy4 or XyWin file is
> likely to have ≪MDNM≫'s. A generic Xy <==> markup "conversion"
> routine with any hope of working out of the box will have to come to
> grips with that.

Right! Thanks for pointing this out. To be honest with you, I never
bother to use anything but  . . .  in 4.0x for dos anyhow.


> (Not that anything more than a very circumscribed
> "conversion" is possible -- there's a fundamental mismatch between
> markup language and a page layout system such as Xy's, all the more
> so when you get into the more aggressively "meta" flavors like XHTML
> and XML -- but that's another issue.)
>

Yes, another matter. And for another time. But for now, let me just
caution that if anyone using my routine expects to get something that
will run through a parser, well think again. There is a fundamental
mismatch, and more work must be done before you can even think about
parsing.


>
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