From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A new online publishing tool for Texinfo documents. Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:22:17 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87r800dr09.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069691824 12502 80.91.224.253 (24 Nov 2003 16:37:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:37:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: epameinondas@gmx.de, bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, karl@freefriends.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 24 17:36:59 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AOJhr-0005AL-00 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 17:36:59 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AOJhr-0004Eg-00 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 17:36:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AOKah-0005Ki-FW for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:33:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AOKa6-0005Js-Th for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:33:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AOKZa-0005C0-TE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:33:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AOKZa-0005Bc-Ha for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:32:30 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AOJTd-0007Dt-OO; Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:22:17 -0500 Original-To: Nic Ferrier In-reply-to: <87r800dr09.fsf@kanga.tapsellferrier.co.uk> (message from Nic Ferrier on 22 Nov 2003 21:37:10 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:18087 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:18087 I think that's true as well. I'm considering some work to make libxml2 (which provides xsltproc) available as part of Emacs. This would make using it very simple indeed. As I see it, this is a major disadvantage of the plan. I don't want to make Emacs link with another library just for this. I'm unsure about Lynx but for Emacs/W3 I'm sure we could add a hack so that we could use Elisp as an in-page language. Perhaps each instruction could be provided both in Javascript and in Emacs Lisp; then each program to display the file could use whichever one is easier. Or if the Javascript that you need is very limited and stereotyped, a simple Lisp program could recognize the standard Javascript programs with regexps, and handle each case appropriately.