On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, James Linden wrote: > Does analog have any (hidden) support for true output templating? The > header, footer, stylesheet, etc. are great, but are pretty restrictive. I > browsed through much of the documentation, and was unable to find anything > definitive on the subject. After playing with the computer readable output > format, I found that it /could/ be used to export to various templates, > but would take some interesting parsing. CSV could be used, but parsing it > is much more complex than it needs to be. > If suggestions for a solution will be entertained, I am willing to put > some time and effort into developing a modular XML based output format > that will be more easily machine readable, and thus, simplistic to make > scripts to convert to whatever templated output is desired. > If this isn't an option, please let me know so I can start writing the > parsers for the other formats. :o) >
Jeremy's answer is quite correct, but I should add some comments. Output templates are an idea I've been pondering for some months, but I haven't resolved satisfactorily yet. At the moment I have a freeze on more output formats, because it's become unscalable to add any more, but there are several more I should like to add. The problem is that I can't work out how to construct a template which includes even all of the current output formats as instances. They all seem to have ugly special cases. James, if you have any ideas on this, then let's talk further. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01 +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
