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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)
From:       Christian_Ridderström <christian.ridderstrom () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-07-24 11:12:16
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.64.0807241310330.3591 () ssh-01 ! md ! kth ! se
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote:

> As a sed/awk/perl/ruby parser, I appreciate that very much.
>
> The more I think about it, the more I think I should make the XML->YAML 
> and YAML->XML converters. That way, if future generations of LyX project 
> programmers forget why it's important to space their XML "just so", it 
> won't matter. Also, I have a feeling that YAML will be much easier to 
> parse than either 1.5.x or XML.

> At first I'll do them in Ruby because Ruby has all that stuff built in 
> and easy to do.

Did you see José's post about how the lyx2lyx stuff is really inside a 
Python lib (module)?  You'd probably only need a different kind of wrapper 
that calls this module, instead of reinventing everything in Ruby.

/Christian

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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44            http://www.md.kth.se/~chr

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