Any source of Plain-text stylesheets?

I need to find docbook stylesheets that can strip off xml
markup, as  
well as any content that is not plaintext.
Do someone on this list know of any such source.
Alternately, do some one know of any grammar checker for the
english  
language, hosted on Mac OS X,
that retains xml markup.

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Colin Shapiro wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not quite sure what you're asking for.  If you want
a stylesheet that
> simply returns the text from an XML document and does
nothing else, then I
> believe something as simple as:
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
>   <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> ...would suffice.  Unless you want it in some specific
format?  Please
> elaborate a little further and I'm sure someone can
help you more.


Yes for inlines. Not helpful for block elements?
lists become indented,
para's seperated by single line feed,
tables..... not easy.

etc.

That's my definition of 'plain text'.



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The best option I've found is to generate HTML and then
convert to text
using "links" tool, for example.

Camille.

Dave Pawson wrote:
> Colin Shapiro wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm not quite sure what you're asking for.  If you
want a stylesheet that
>> simply returns the text from an XML document and
does nothing else,
>> then I
>> believe something as simple as:
>>
>> <xsl:template match="/">
>>   <xsl:apply-templates/>
>> </xsl:template>
>>
>> ...would suffice.  Unless you want it in some
specific format?  Please
>> elaborate a little further and I'm sure someone can
help you more.
> 
> 
> Yes for inlines. Not helpful for block elements?
> lists become indented,
> para's seperated by single line feed,
> tables..... not easy.
> 
> etc.
> 
> That's my definition of 'plain text'.
> 
> 
> 
> regards
> 


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Tommy Nordgren wrote:
> I need to find docbook stylesheets that can strip off
xml markup, as 
> well as any content that is not plaintext.


http://lynx.browser.org/

Lynx is a browser that is very simple.

Suggestion.

Generate the html using the docbook stylesheets.

Then use Lynx to download the file and save it as plain
text.
http://lynx.isc.org/lynx2.8.
5/lynx2-8-5/lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html#RemoteSource



(I seem to remember there was a command line option to load
the file,
then save to disk as plain text, but I can't find it)

HTH


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Quoting Dave Pawson <davepdpawson.co.uk>:

> (I seem to remember there was a command line option to
load the file,
> then save to disk as plain text, but I can't find it)
>

This would be

lynx -dump somefile.html

However, as stripping the tags from a DocBook XML file is
not a  
DocBook-specific task, there should be general XML tools
that do just  
that. I just don't remember one.

regards,
Markus

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Quoting Dave Pawson <davepdpawson.co.uk>:

>> However, as stripping the tags from a DocBook XML
file is not a   
>> DocBook-specific task, there should be general XML
tools that do   
>> just that. I just don't remember one.
>
> Don't understand that. It surely *is* a docbook
specific task?
> E.g. One vocabulary uses code element as inline,
another uses
> it as a block level. Which do you choose?

I missed the start of the thread, but from what you quoted
of the  
original poster's message I did not gather that he was
looking for  
formatted plain text output (which would indeed be DocBook
specific,  
as you say).

regards,
Markus


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On 13 aug 2007, at 08.09, Colin Shapiro wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm not quite sure what you're asking for.  If you want
a  
> stylesheet that simply returns the text from an XML
document and  
> does nothing else, then I believe something as simple
as:
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>   <xsl:apply-templates/>
>
> </xsl:template>
>
	This does part of what I want.
	It's necessary to add lines of the following type for every
element  
type I want to cut out:
	<xsl:template match="programlisting" />
	Of course, now I have another problem: Stripping out the
xml  
declaration in the output file.
As for what I want, it should be obvious from the second
part of my  
question: To check the English language grammar
embedded in DocBook markup. I can't do this directly from my
xml  
editor, because my grammar checking software mangles xml
markup
(Strips off data type declaration and drops end tags!!)
> ...would suffice.  Unless you want it in some specific
format?   
> Please elaborate a little further and I'm sure someone
can help you  
> more.
>
> Colin
>
> On 8/12/07, Tommy Nordgren <tommy.nordgrencomhem.se> wrote: I need  
> to find docbook stylesheets that can strip off xml
markup, as
> well as any content that is not plaintext.
> Do someone on this list know of any such source.
> Alternately, do some one know of any grammar checker
for the english
> language, hosted on Mac OS X,
> that retains xml markup.
>
> -------------------------------------
> This sig is dedicated to the advancement of Nuclear
Power
> Tommy Nordgren
> tommy.nordgrencomhem.se
>
>
>
>
>
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