[openbeostranslationkit] AW: Re: AW: Re: Structured Text Translation

> > In my humble opinion, we should first create a gernic internal format
> and an
> > interface
> > that makes it easy to use for the developer, what will lead to good
> Yes, and that is where I think xhtml comes in. xhtml knows how to 
> descripe data - including metadata.
> 
        In my imagination the generic format is something that is in the
memory at
        run time and xhtml is nothing more than a translator to extract a
fille into it.

> You're more than welcome to devise a OO API describing Text - you're in 
> for a hell of a lot of work, I'd recon...
> 
        Ok i'll try it, i mean a first version does not have to include all
the features that
        are available in the different formats that are out there.

> But although xhtml might be great and all that, it doesn't solve the 
> puzzle of converting from native format to generic format, since the 
> native format most often won't be xml.
> 
> In the end, we might have to ditch this whole xlst thingy, and go binary 
>    - I would just like to explore the option of using xslt...
> 
        I wrote a pdf writer component not that long ago and i think there
is no way to use
        xml as a descripton how to load a pdf, this has to be a specific
translator that does this
        job.

        Markus

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