All right, how about a simplified HTML set of tags that XSLT will parse...
UBB for XSLT? I really see the value in UBB type "tagging", but I'm being
told I need to write my own parser to parse the dang thing.
http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum12/HTML/001704.html
So far, what I've see on the net are UBB Message Forums. Mostly PHP, and
such... I'm a vbscript kind of guy (classic ASP).
Karl
----- Original Message -----
From: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)de>
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: [xsl] UBB Code and XSLT
Karl J. Stubsjoen wrote:
I'm considering UBB code for the simple formatting needs that my clients
may
use when updating active content on my websites. Would I write a
template
that could correctly translate the UBB code into valid HTML tags, or am
I
way off on this concept?
(for everybody wondering, UBB is one of the many variants of "simplified
HTML" used in web based bullentin boards, see for example
http://france.expats.tv/data/ultimatebb.php?ubb=ubb_code_page)
The problem is that you can't match UBB code with XSLT templates, you need
to parse a text string. It's not too hard to do a one-to-one translation
from UBB into possibly malformed HTML, using d-o-e and the usual recursive
string replace template. But if you want to deal with stray brackets and
do some validation, you're probably much better off with another tool
than XSLT 1.0. Most likely you'll find ready-to-use Perl, PHP or Java code
in one of the open source BBs and Wikis. Search FreshMeat.
J.Pietschmann
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