DLang Spec rewrite (?)

[Juan Manuel Cabo]

On Sunday, 26 May 2013 at 08:09:16 UTC, Borden wrote:
> [...]
> My 'complaint' - although I would prefer to have my 
> observations about difficulties working with a markup system be 
> called 'observations' - is that the current body of text files 
> which comprise the DLang spec source cannot be easily compiled 
> into clean, well-formed, XHTML5-compliant files from which I 
> can build an ePUB file.
> [...]

Maybe you can automatically convert HTML to XHTML, and then apply 
an XSLT transformation.

You mentioned somewhere that you needed something like a CSS 
transformation to target a <p> inside another element. You could 
do that with XSLT.

To convert from HTML to XHTML you could use the following:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/10792/Convert-HTML-to-XHTML-and-Clean-Unnecessary-Tags-a

It is made in C#, though if it works, I guess it could be ported 
to D.

ALso you could use Addam D. Ruppe XML DOM classes, which, though 
I'm not sure, seem to tolerate HTML4:

https://github.com/adamdruppe/misc-stuff-including-D-programming-language-web-stuff

(grab dom.d and characterencoding.d from there).

Or maybe the next generation xml library for D which will be 
revieed for inclusion, which supports XPATH queries:

       http://dsource.org/projects/xmlp

--jm