Re: e-books

On 31/10/00 12:49 pm, Justin Mason (jm_at_netnoteinc.com) wrote:

>
> yikes! That'd be putting up quite a barrier to entry for content providers
> though, IMHO. Last time I even tried to compile the Perl XSLT module on
> Perl 5.005 it barfed, and I'm supposed to know how this stuff works ;)

Yeah. XSLT for Perl is depressing me constantly. The Apache/Java stuff is
fantastic, though, and I gather there's some nice support for Python from
the Zope community. And you could always use Xalan for C++ :)

I think the point here is that such a system could accept most formats as
input, and spit several out as output, though I take on board the complexity
argument...

There are other ways to translate text/html/pdf to and from each other,
however.

Cheers,

 Mike

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