Spencer,
As Jay and David have said, XSLT is hindered in generating this kind of
thing by the rules of XML syntax, which this format doesn't follow -- but
doesn't InDesign have an "XML import" feature you could use to get around
having to create this?
Short of a "pure Perl" approach, sometimes special output formats can be
handled gracefully in XSLT by designing an XML logical view and then
customizing a serializer or post-processor to generate the syntax. (This is
similar to what Mike suggested for the fancy-plain-text application asked
after in another thread.) But that's more than I'd usually be willing to
take on ... partly because it requires a complete spec of the target syntax
to do it right.
Cheers,
Wendell
At 04:55 PM 4/26/2005, Jay wrote:
In other words, InDesign doesn't use XML Consequently, you'll be forcing
XSLT to do odd things in order to get the desired output. I think d-o-e is
about your only hope for that problem.
I also really have to question XSLT's fitness for the task. I'd be turning
to Perl about now, personally.
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