William F. Hammond writes:
> Parser output is a nice linear stream. My impression is that
> processors are NOT expected to seek but just to make one pass through it.
> (Then I believe that some processors construct the whole thing in
> memory as a tree.)
its quite common to use a tree-based approach. DSSSL does this,
highly recommended!!!
> 1. Megginson's sgmlspl/sgmlspm comes with docs that may be used to
> test the package. The two enclosed demo processors are:
>
> (a) DocBook to LaTeX
> (b) DocBook to HTML
>
you probably want to look at Norm Walsh's DocBook DSSSL
specifications, if this area interests you. they go way beyond what
Megginson did. they cover Docbook -> HTML, and Docbook -> TeX/RTF/MIF.
Sebastan