Re: Import Filters

Michel Dagenais (dagenais@vlsi.polymtl.ca)
Fri, 2 May 97 14:02:06 EDT

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 )

Even changing iniria to inria, i could not access the URL?!

Could it work just the same in ThotEditor? Or perhaps as a filter using
the ThotKernel library?

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.

It would be interesting to generate a DTD from a .S file, have a conversion to
SGML (.T file) and connect a SGML parser (like NSGML from James Clark) to
the Thot API in order to read back SGML documents for which an equivalent
.S file exists. Anyone working on this? I see a great potential in
Thot, it just seems that a few "glue" components are required to
import from the rest of the world! With XML (slightly simplified SGML subset
proposed by the world wide web consortium) being pushed as the successor
to HTML, SGML seems to finally reaching the mainstream.