[PYTHON DOC-SIG] SGML-Tools

[Anthony Baxter]

What about SWIGing SP? That was my first thought - I haven't looked at doing
it yet, tho.

Anthony

>>> "Fred L. Drake" wrote
> Ka-Ping Yee wrote:
> > But putting together these two ideas, why not a Python interface
> > to sgmls itself?  James Clark has an API for SP, and as far as i
> > know the source code is freely available.  Import that as a module,
> > and you have a super-fast, robust, well-tested SGML parser to play
> > with from your Python script.  (The back-ends for various output
> 
>   Yes, I've thought of this as well.  I even have a C++ source file
> sitting at home where I started it once.  The catch is more one of
> time availability; I really don't expect my employer to allocate any
> of my time for this (these messages are already taxing my time;( ),
> and a version working from nsgmls output would be a lot faster to
> write & debug, especially since my C++ is getting rusty.  The faster
> version could be dropped in when it becomes available at a later
> point.
>   Maybe I'll take another look at going ahead and writing one or the
> other.
> 
> 
>   -Fred
> 
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