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Re: Glossary database
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Glossary database
- From: Adam Di Carlo <adam at onshore dot com>
- Date: 28 Mar 2000 03:25:46 -0500
- References: <200001271047.LAA22566@ezili.sis.pasteur.fr> <950-Tue01Feb2000110553-0500-ndw@nwalsh.com>
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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:
> / Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@pasteur.fr> was heard to say:
> | On Wednesday 26 January 2000, at 11 h 0, the keyboard of Jorge Godoy
> | <godoy@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
> |
> | > Has anybody here implemented something such as a glossary database? I
> | > was thinking about having some files with glossterms and including
> | > just the necessary definitions on each book.
> |
> | I'm afraid this cannot be done in pure SGML (there is no
> | BibTeX for SGML) and you have to rely on external processing
> | with M4 or ePerl or similar.
>
> Well, it's really a matter of processing expectations, isn't it?
> One could write a stylesheet that had this result. But maybe that's
> not pure SGML either :-)
Actually, you could have a grove deconstruction/reconstruction
into/out of a database. I think some of the folks on the OpenJade
team are interested in this. They are making some pretty serious
strides on the SGML query system part of the spec.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>