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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Calendar - leap seconds
Date: 01 Apr 2001 12:57:24 +0100
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xanthian@well.com (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:

> And into my head full blown lept lust for a programming language
> whose source code syntax was SGML based, like HTML or VML:
> 
> <pragma pname = "foo" pparm_the_first = "bar"> 
> 
>  <!-- lots of code -->
> 
>  <namespace nsname = "baz">
> 
>    <!-- lots more code -->
> 
>  </namespace nsname = "baz">
> 
> </pragma pname = "foo"> 

Have you come across XSLT? A tiny fragment from my not-formally-announced
code framework generator at http://www.pushface.org/coldframe/ ..

  <!-- Generate the individual components of the class identifier 
       or instance record. -->
  <xsl:template match="attribute" mode="instance-record-component">
    <xsl:text>    </xsl:text>
    <xsl:call-template name="attribute-name"/>
    <xsl:text> : </xsl:text>
    <xsl:call-template name="attribute-type"/>
    <xsl:if test="initial">
      <xsl:text> := </xsl:text>
      <xsl:value-of select="initial"/>
    </xsl:if>
    <xsl:text>;&#10;</xsl:text>
  </xsl:template>

Templates are slightly like subprograms; the outer one is a matcher,
which finds all the <attribute> nodes in (the current subset of) the
input document (but only operates in the "instance-record-component"
mode), while the target of <xsl:call-template name="attribute-type"/>
is only invoked when explicitly named .. <xsl:if test="initial">
succeeds if the current <attribute> element contains an <initial>
element .. <xsl:value-of select="initial"/> outputs the content of
said <initial> element .. loads more fun available!

> The last line could be just:
> 
> </pragma>

I rather think this is required in SGML? not sure ..