- From: Tony Graham <tgraham@mentea.net>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 19:31:43 +0100 (IST)
- To: public-ppl@w3.org
On Tue, June 4, 2013 2:01 pm, Jirka Kosek wrote: > On 4.6.2013 2:40, Arved Sandstrom wrote: > >> 1. Truth be told, since XSLT is declarative and works well in this >> space, I am convinced that an bettter FO formatter would actually be >> written in something like F# or Scheme or Haskell. Back in the early 1990s, Uniscope had a transformation language for SGML written in Scheme and a Scheme preprocessor and TeX macros for formatting. Some days I think of implementing a formatter in Erlang. It's appealing to think that you could just fire off each page sequence and they could fire off their blocks and they could all just sort themselves out, but the reality might not be so appealing. > RenderX in past tried to develop FO engine in Common Lisp: Uniscope for a while also had a SGML parser written (before my time) in Lisp. Regards, Tony.
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