Re: pxref

[Kevin Rodgers]

Juri Linkov wrote:
> Emacs already can read the XML output.  Just try, for example, after:
>
>   makeinfo --xml -o info.xml info.texi
>
> to evaluate:
>
>   (xml-parse-file "info.xml")
>
> `xml-parse-file' is a top-level autoloaded function, so you will see
> its output, which is just a simple Lisp structure.
>
> So the main problem is not reading the XML output, but rendering such
> Lisp structure into the final representation.  This could be achieved
> most easily with using DSSSL-like rules.

The alternative would be to use XSLT directives.  But you've then got to
implement a DSSSL or XSLT processor in Emacs Lisp, for a reasonable
subset of the chosen stylesheet language.

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Kevin Rodgers