Martin's Miscs

[Wolfram Kahl]

>  An even nicer idea, which insofar as I can see would be easy to
>implement, would be to have the Clean parser ignore HTML, XML, SGML,
>CSS[1..], or DSSSL mark-up.  These all depend on <...> braces.  (It would
>be good if the editor could optionally do this)

Some time ago there was an article on comp.text.sgml which I think
is relevant to this discussion, so I forward it to the Clean list.
This topic crops up every now and then both on comp.text.sgml and
comp.programming.literate.
A somewhat different literate-programming project using XML documents is
HOPS:

 URL: http://diogenes.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de:8080/kahl/HOPS/

But now the comp.text.sgml article:

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 > From: cmsmcq@uic.edu (C M Sperberg-McQueen)
 > Date: 31 Dec 1997 17:59:04 GMT
 > Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml
 > Subject: Re: Sofware/Documentation concurrency

 > Ted Lassagne (tlassagn@napanet.net) wrote:

 > : Knuth's Tangle/Weave scheme of several years ago was a way of keeping
 > : the code and documentation together, yet being able to separate them for
 > : compilation of code and  production of documentation.  It's occurred to
 > : me that this scheme could be recast into an SGML framework, with a set
 > : of fairly simple tools to do extraction and formatting.  I don't have a
 > : reference handy, but probably could look it up if anyone is interested
 > : in exploring it.

 > Donald E. Knuth, "Literate Programming," The Computer Journal 27 (1984): 
 > 97-111, rpt. [rev.] on pp. 99-136 of his book Literate Programming
 > ([Stanford, California]: Center for the Study of
 > Language and Information, 1992), (=CSLI Lecture Notes 27).

 > I agree heartily that literate programming is a natural application
 > for SGML.

 > I've been using a simple SGML-based literate programming system for
 > several years; those interested can consult the papers "SWEB: an SGML Tag Set 
 > for Literate Programming" (http://www.uic.edu/~cmsmcq/tech/sweb/sweb.html)
 > and "A Simple Yacc/Lex Processor for Sweb, an SGML Tag Set for 
 > Literate Programming" (http://www.uic.edu/~cmsmcq/tech/sweb/swebyacc.html).
 > The latter is an Sweb document describing version 0.1 of an Sweb
 > tangle program; it was done with a very simple Sweb-HTML translation
 > which falls short of what I would like to do sometime, but which
 > has been good enough for my purposes, so that I have never gotten
 > around to replacing it.

 > --

 > -C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
 >  Senior Research Programmer, University of Illinois at Chicago
 >  Editor, ACH/ACL/ALLC Text Encoding Initiative
 >  Co-coordinator, Model Editions Partnership

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