RE: FDK and Filter to HTML?

["Schwedland, Steve" <Schwedsl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you want to start writing Perl scripts then why not just script the
raw SGML into HTML and bypass Frame altogether.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jay Smith [SMTP:jay@jaysmith.com]
> Sent:	Friday, January 15, 1999 1:49 PM
> To:	FrameUsers List; Frame List
> Subject:	Re: FDK and Filter to HTML?
> 
> Eric,
> 
> If FM's filter does most of what you need, how about simply filtering
> to HTML and then writing a Perl script to do whatever it is you need
> to do.  In this way, if your Perl script is solid and handles all
> appropriate exceptions, you would not have to worry about modifying
> any filter you might write or post-filtering FDK processing you might
> write as FM and its filtering changes with version changes.  
> 
> -- 
> Jay Smith
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> 
> Eric J. Stoffer wrote:
> > 
> > I would like to use the FDK to modify the HTML output of FM+SGML to
> add
> > special markup and split files and some other things I think are
> > possible. I just want to do more than is possible with the standard
> FM
> > to HTML filter.  I have used the FDK in the past to customize FM,
> but I
> > have never written a filter.
> > 
> > When doing this would I start from scratch writing a brand new
> filter,
> > or can I "call" the FM to HTML filter and then just mess with the
> output
> > before it's written to the file?
> > 
> > Thanks for any comments.  Eric Stoffer
> >
> 
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