| xm-tool | Using XM::PP |
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The pp script was one of the more complex perl script that
I (guidod) wrote to handle xml'ish data. It may prove to
be useful to you, since it can be easily extended with
functionality - and of course that could also be sub-calls
into
xm-tool perl snippets.
(this is document is still incomplete, sorry)
With the integration into the
xm-tool processing chain,
there is also a xm::pp_maybe script, that will only call xm::pp
if the file starts with a line saying
"<!doctype whatever>"
The space-seperated list of entries after that doctype-spec
does not read exactly like the doctype spec from the sgml
times, it is just a series of names of
xm-tool pm-modules
and their pp-intializations scripts with an xm-extension.
If they don't live locally, the
xm-tool's xm::doctype::*
path is searched (under the perl's @INC path of course).
Therefore, specifying a
"<!doctype html include umlaut>"
happens to load:
use xm::doctype::html xm::pp xm/doctype/html.xm use xm::doctype::include.pm xm::pp xm/doctype/umlaut.xm |
(need to extend documentation here, please have a look into the provided doctype .pm and .xm to see how easy it is to add new snippets to the xm::pp processor - and note that colontags.pm has been use-referenced from both a doctype and it can be used globally in a normal Makefile pipe-chain with xm-perl directly)
In the opensource world, the source code is your friend - look
at it, learn from it, tweak it, submit sth. from it.
(now go and look into xm/pp.pm, it has some fine comments embedded)
| 2000-02-03 | xm-tool | guidod |