We are very pleased that you consider using Thot as a front end to your
application.
I am very interessed in structure transformations in structured documents
(this is the subject of my thesis) and every experience in this domain is
interresting for me.
I am currently working on a generic transformation layer in thot based on a
comparison of structure schemas. I also developped a transformation language
to provide user-defined transformtions. It now implemented in Amaya (see
HTML.trans and http://opera.inirialpes.fr/Papers/WWW96/WWW96.html )
Concerning the import of formats in Thot, there is no generic tool similar to
transformation schema. A way to write such converters in thot is the use of
the API to build the structure tree in memory and then saving this document in
a piv file. You can see the converter from Article to Report models (file
Thot/misc/tools/art2rap.c ) and its section in the makefile. The convertor
uses the ThotKernel library, which does not include thot dialogue facilities.
We could stay in contact for futher discussion about document transformation.
Hope this helps .
Stephane.