Re:Show HN: A Python script to convert DocBook books to QtHelp
by moistly on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:43PM
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And you should then use XSLT to transform the docbook-generated html to Qt html. It is designed for that task, no weird Python regexes and string-splitting and indentation-tracking required. IOW, choosing the right tool for the job.
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Re:Show HN: A Python script to convert DocBook books to QtHelp
by dkrajzew on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @01:48PM
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:-) You insist...
Yeah, look, it's hacky, yes, and maybe runs only with a certain setting.
But, well, you may be right, when I think a second time about this. Thanks...
Re:Show HN: A Python script to convert DocBook books to QtHelp
by moistly on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @08:10PM
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I should note that XPath is really the key here: it’s an elegant language to get and transform tree-structured and sequential data, so it could be well-used in a Pythonic template pipeline.
XSLT is a functional programming language that leans heavily on XPath to support transformation of tree-based structures. XQuery is another in the same vein. But you can accomplish the same things using an imperative language like Python, calling into XPath for data.