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Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Re: submissions
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Bryce Harrington |
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Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Re: submissions |
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Thu, 25 Jan 2001 02:55:22 -0800 (PST) |
On 25 Jan 2001, Mike Warren wrote:
> Bryce Harrington <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > For things like bold, italics, etc., you could specify a specific
> > way for text documents to be followed, that make it easier to parse
> > from. For example...
>
> Yes, this is what I had in mind for email submissions. ``Most'' things
> could be readily gleaned by a few simple heuristics, I imagine. I'll
> certainly volunteer for this aspect of the project (as long as it's
> not Perl)...
The code to do this actually already exists (in Perl, m'fraid, though).
Check this page for a full listing of formatting syntax used:
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/TWiki/TextFormattingRules
The software's source code is downloadable, and I bet you could extract
the appropriate code out straight away. It converts to HTML rather than
XML, but that's something that could be tinkered with.
Bryce