Text to SGML tool

["Crow, Ian" <ian dot crow at linklaters dot com>]

Hello all

I have some code I'm willing to pass over to whoever is running any kind of
SGML-tools support. The following attempts to explain what its all about.

I've just spent some time converting a large (500Kb) text document from pure
text to linux-doc SGML.

While I was SGML-ing it someone else was still editing the text, so we
needed a 'non-invasive' way of adding the SGML so the text, so that the pure
text version could move forward while the SGML was being completed, and the
two sets of edits then combined easily. (As an aside, CVS's concurrent
editing was used to make this possible.)

I ended up with a mechanism where various 'hints' are added to the text on
separate lines, and the resultant file then processed by a perl script to
make the final SGML doc. Here's a quick example:

MARKUP: sect
Section Heading

MARKUP: narrative
Here's a sample piece of code:

MARKUP: code
	for (x=1; x < 10; x++) {printf("Count: %d\n", x);}
MARKUP: narrative

More interesting narrative...

A quick "cat file.base|grep -v 'MARKUP'" restores the original text, running
the perl script gives the SGML.

So, was I reinventing the wheel? Is there a place for this in the SGML
community at large?

Cheers
IanC


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