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Subject: Re: [xsl] weird formatting and characters with <xsl:text disable-output-escaping>
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:22:12 -0400

Spencer,

As Jay and David have said, XSLT is hindered in generating this kind of thing by the rules of XML syntax, which this format doesn't follow -- but doesn't InDesign have an "XML import" feature you could use to get around having to create this?

Short of a "pure Perl" approach, sometimes special output formats can be handled gracefully in XSLT by designing an XML logical view and then customizing a serializer or post-processor to generate the syntax. (This is similar to what Mike suggested for the fancy-plain-text application asked after in another thread.) But that's more than I'd usually be willing to take on ... partly because it requires a complete spec of the target syntax to do it right.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 04:55 PM 4/26/2005, Jay wrote:
In other words, InDesign doesn't use XML Consequently, you'll be forcing
XSLT to do odd things in order to get the desired output. I think d-o-e is
about your only hope for that problem.

I also really have to question XSLT's fitness for the task. I'd be turning
to Perl about now, personally.


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