Re: xhtml to xmlspec

* Max Froumentin <mf@w3.org> [2005-06-30 08:53+0100]
> I know it probably can't be done entirely, but a stylesheet that does
> most of the work of transforming a spec in XHTML into one in xmlspec
> (i.e. the inverse of xmlspec.xsl) would be incredibly useful for people
> wanting to switch to xmlspec. Has anybody worked on one?
> 
> I'm sure it's not that hard to at least:
> - group <h*> to <section>
> - renaming of inline links: <a> to <link>, etc.
> - generate the bibliography (just joking, although it's probably not impossible...)
> - remove the ToC
> etc.

A long time ago, I asked somebody to help me with exactly this. What
was his name? M… M… Oh yes, now I remember, Max Froumentin.

He gave me an XSLT 2.0 stylesheet, which I used to convert a document:

    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-ws-arch/2002Jun/0055

I have since then done similar things with an XSLT 1.0 stylesheet,
e.g.:

    http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2004/ws/addressing/xmlspecconv.xsl?rev=1.3

The bottom line is that, depending on what the XHTML document looks
like, you have more or less things to do. I don't think that a single
stylesheet will work for everybody, but the two examples above should
give you a good head start.

Cheers,

Hugo

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