On Tuesday 22 July 2008 23:43:27 rgheck wrote: > In fairness, I think he was talking about little hacked scripts to do > the kind of search-and-replace that isn't possible yet in LyX itself. So > you don't really have a parser in that case. Just a very long string. ;-)
Yes, it works quite well on it does not break. :-) > > This seems to me like the debate between strong and bold. I want to parse > > the lyx file on a content based stream, not just a set of lines. > > > > After the change to xml the regularity will still be there with the added > > bonus that finally it will be consistent. We took 6 years to clean the > > lyx format to a reasonable state and we are still not there yet. > > So, Jose, are we ever actually going to do this? If so, then it seems to > me we ought to decide to do it, halt other development for the few weeks > it would take, and do it. I don't think it would really be that hard to > have it working. The existing parser could be tweaked for the short > term. It's already capable of dealing with tabulars, and those are > written as XML already. Longer term, we'd prefer libxml2 or > something---SAX, I assume, rather than DOM---, but that could be done > after the format had stabilized. Sure I agree. And I think we should really do it. I have some work already done on this but it would be nice to coordinate with others what needs to be done during the transition stage. > Yeah, I know, wrong list. Fixed that. :-) > rh -- José Abílio
