Re: Apologies and questions

Arnaud Bailly <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
> First the apologies: I have at some time in the past comitted myself
> to provide documentation for planner-zoom feature and it seems that
> I have waited too long and someone did it.  My most sincere apologies
> for the delay.
>
> Next the question: I am trying to create a muse plugin for the maven
> build tool (kind of evolved mokefile in java, integrates documentation
> and project site generation). The maven API for site generation uses
> stream oriented parsing which is not AFAICT the strategy used in
> maven. I have deduced from the lisp code that each regex is analyzed
> in turn on the whole document and generates output. So what I wousd
> like to do is writing a grammar using antlr or cup and use this
> grammar to parse the file.

Not really sure if this is what you are asking for, but some time ago
I wrote a muse->xml converter using Chaperon, which is used as a
component of Cocoon. I use it to generate http://www.verona.se/joakim



> As I am not really sure that this would be a simple task (not sure the
> grammar is really context free), I would like to know before
> undertaking this task whether or not someone as already worked on
> it. Alternatively, I could use an XML format if muse files were stored
> in XML. Y.Hodique told me about this feature some times ago, not sure
> there is something implemented yet.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- 
> Arnaud Bailly, Dr.
> http://www.achilleus.net

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Joakim Verona
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