[WM] Adding SDF as a format

[Carlos Ramirez]

Thanks for the info. I'll start looking into creating the code to 
integrate an sdf format. Seems simple enough ;)

-Carlos

Wes Meltzer wrote:

> At 2:38 PM -0800 3/4/04, Carlos Ramirez wrote:
>
>
>> I'm re-acquainting myself with WebMake again. I'm going to be 
>> migrating my documents that are in SDF format into webmake. I would 
>> like to add the sdf format type, i.e. <content format="text/sdf".., 
>> what is the best approach? It does not look like WebMake allow hooks 
>> to add a new format, like the plugins. Do I have to submit a patch to 
>> FormatConvert.pm?
>>
>> SDF: http://search.cpan.org/src/IANC/sdf-2.001/doc/paper/sdfintro.html
>
>
> This shouldn't be that different from adding Textile support, for 
> which you might not have been on the listserv. Essentially, yes, you 
> do have to modify FormatConvert.pm, but moreover you have to write a 
> hook that WebMake can use. Both the Textile and EtText examples use 
> Perl modules to do the conversions.
>
> If there's a Text::SDF or something along those lines, with a method 
> that can read in sourcetext and write out HTML, then you shouldn't 
> have much time calling it in essentially the same mode as Textile. 
> Also, if there's a standalone app -- an sdf2html or something like 
> that -- you could call it, although I don't know if that would get 
> merged into the source for security risks etc.
>
> If there is not, well, it becomes that much harder. You might be able 
> to do the conversion -- I don't know anything about SDF -- in 
> FormatConvert itself, or you could split it out into a separate 
> program or Perl module...
>
> Anyway, good luck! I would try my hand at it, but I know (a) no SDF 
> (b) not enough Perl, so I'm no use in a practical sense.
>
> Wes :wm


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