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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)
From:       Richard heck <rgheck () bobjweil ! com>
Date:       2008-07-24 1:08:52
Message-ID: 4887D624.7010508 () bobjweil ! com
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Steve Litt wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 July 2008 07:00, José Matos wrote:
>   
>> XML will not change the current status.
>>
>> grep '<style name="Section"' somefile.lyx
>>
>> will still work and it not so different from what we have now. You need the
>> '' already if you have spaces in your expression...
>>     
>
> The trouble is, XML tags can be anywhere -- spacing and linefeeds are 
> immaterial. That means you can no longer parse based on position, such as: 
>
> /^begin_layout/
>
> because technically the whole XML file could be in a single line. Or a single 
> tag could be split between lines.
>
>   
True of course, but in fact the file is likely to be nicely formatted.

rh

> This problem is somewhat lessened by the fact that you could do the following 
> in Vim/ex:
>
> :%s/</\r</g
> :%s/>/>\r/g
> :g/^\s*$/d
>
> I imagine you could do the same thing with sed, I just don't know how. The 
> preceding would put every XML tag on its own line, and eliminate all blank 
> lines, after which you could indeed parse based on linefeeds. The other 
> problem, of course, is that angle brackets within the text would be linefed, 
> which may or may not be a problem depending on the XML dialect you come up 
> with.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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