Re: Document formatting in Scheme

[lisovsky@acm.org]

Hello!

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Noel Welsh wrote:

> It should be possible to express content in a fairly
> simple markup.  E.g:
> 
> (manual	(title "scmunit")
> 		(introduction "scmunit is a unit-testing framework
> for...")
> 		(chapter 1 "blah blah"))
This (chapter ...) element has no straightforward  XML mapping.
SXML uses 
 (chapter (@ (number 1)) "blah blah")
for representation of
 <chapter number="1">blah blah</chapter>
using @ in XPath-like style, which makes it convenient for
SXPath:
http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/xml.html#SXPath

SXML specification may be found at:
http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/xml.html#SXML-spec
BTW, it provides an s-expr markup and transformation to HTML
and LaTeX, but this is just one of approaches possible.

In my own practice I'm mostly using XML/XHTML as source format
and SSAX 
http://ssax.sourceforge.net
as XML->SXML parser.

Best regards,
     Kirill.