Re: yelp performance (Re: Successor to DocBook)

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Don Scorgie <DonScorgie Blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> 
> ... now if only distros / tarballs installed the XML
> version (heck, even
> the HTML version.  Even provided them as an
> alternative) instead of the
> (what I'll call) info version, it would be great. 
> Currently Yelp has to
> pick through the info version, looking for obscure
> "tags" (like *Note
> and *Menu) and parse them properly.  And cope with
> the random
> capitalisation of the tags.  And also deal with tag
> tables (location of
> pages within the file), which are constantly wrong. 
> And figure out
> links that randomly change format and switch between
> directories between
> files (and on occasion within files).

Would it be feasible to pass that job to a perl
script?
That all sounds like stuff perl would chomp through
quite merrily :)


		
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