Re: DOCBOOK: Glossary database

[Adam Di Carlo <adam at onshore dot com>]

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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