XML convertor generator

[Jeffrey Ricker]

Is this the sort of thing you are talking about?

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At 03:48 AM 3/25/99 +0000, Clark Evans wrote:
>James Robertson wrote:
>| At 03:08 25/03/1999 , JPA wrote:
>| | Hello,
>| |
>| | I'm currently working on an xml convertor-generator. When finished, the
>| | tool will, if you take the bother to type the structure of your input
>| | format and mappings on entities and attributes, construct a convertor.
>| | There's no documentation as yet, and some stuff missing (escaping, for
>| | one thing), but if there's enough interest I'll put it on a website as
is.
>| |
>| | Paul Janssens - paul.janssens at skynet.be
>| 
>| Paul,
>| 
>| Not wishing to rain on your parade, but aren't
>| you re-inventing the wheel here?
>
>Actually, a program which created an efficient
>program to convert XML conforming to a specific
>DTD to another product would be a very cool 
>invention, very different from using Perl 
>and/or Omnimark.
>
>I have Omnimark programs which take a great
>deal of processing power (I'd hate to see the 
>Perl equivalent).  Cutting it in half with a 
>program that generated a program would be 
>very cool indeed.   What kind of 'efficiencies'
>do you get when you remove the interpreted layer?
>
>I'm reading this that you are more or less
>doing a YACC thing?  Is this a correct
>interpretation?  Will it do SGML?
>(I guess I can run it through nsgmls 
>to make the XML equivalent first.)
>Is it open source?  Hopefully it 
>will generate C code (for speed).
>
>Clark Evans
>
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