XML Mail

[David Megginson]

Clark Evans writes:

 > Are there any parsers that will accept 'mail' and 
 > generate corresponding XML?

<snip/>

 > The rewrite program would:
 > 
 > 0) Transform reserved characters > < & into
 >    &gt; &lt; &amp; and handle other trivial 
 >    conversions such as this.

Of course.

 > 1) Transform the 'headers' into XML structure.
 >    <mail-header
 >       sender="clark.evans at manhattanproject.com"
 >       to.1="xml-dev at ic.ac.uk"
 >       etc.
 >    >

Sounds reasonable.

 > 2) Leave valid XML/HTML alone if possible.

Wrong -- or, to put it differently, it should leave content with
text/html and text/xml alone, but it should not try to recognise
markup in text/plain.

 > 3) Add a <mail> </mail> and <p> </p> for non-xml
 >    non-html mail.

I don't think that adding <p>...</p> is a good idea -- if the body of
the message is text/plain, then it should be treated as a blob of
text.


All the best,


David

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David Megginson                 david at megginson.com
           http://www.megginson.com/

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