Dear Yves, with SXML you could write transformation rules as Peter has shown in www.more-magic.net/docs/scheme/sxslt.pdf.
I'm not experienced with SXML, but AFAIK they would generate a similar effect as the procedures in your example below. Best wishes, Arthur 2014-09-21 17:06 GMT-03:00 Yves Cloutier <yves.clout...@gmail.com>: > > Hello Oleg, > > Thank you for your recommendations too. I actually just came back from the local library where I picked up "The Scheme Programming Language". > > You know, reading through your reply, it was the last part that made me think about something. > > If I can convert my input to the format: > > (bold "text") > (indent 5 "text") > (bold (smallcap (size 2 "text"))) > > Could I not define each of these as functions (or procedures), and then just call an (eval ' ) procedure to do my output? > > For example (keeping in mind I'm only just getting familiar with Scheme syntax!): > > (define (bold (text) > (print the opening tag for the command 'bold') > (print the string 'text') > (print the closing tag for the command 'bold')) > > (define (indent (indent-value text) > (print the opening tag for the command 'indent' with value of 'indent-value') > (print the string 'text') > (print the closing tag for the command 'indent')) > > Actually due to the possible presence of nested commands, it should probably be something more generic, since in the last example: > > (bold (smallcap (size 2 "text"))) > > what the procedure 'bold' would be taking in is not a string "text", but rather an expression...so this is where I guess things would need to be recursive. > > Once my document has been converted into one big "s-expression", and procedures defined accordingly, then I could just (eval ) it..couldn't I? > > (eval '(bold "text") > (indent 5 "text") > (bold (smallcap (size 2 "text")))) > > Or something along those lines? > > If this is the case....brilliant! >
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