[scribus-dev] XML Processing of SLA Files

Jain Basil Aliyas jainbasil at fedoraproject.org
Sat Apr 18 17:11:36 CEST 2009


Hi Tom,

This is really a great help for me. I am currently working on file exchange
in scribus( XTags, IDML/INX import/export on Scribus). Your work will help
me more in understanding the technique of Parsing documents.

Cheers!
Jain Basil Aliyas

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:

> Thomas Zastrow wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I wrote a little (Java) program which demonstrates how SLA files can be
>> parsed and edited with standard XML techniques:
>>
>> http://www.thomas-zastrow.de/texte.php?kat=scribus&sf=xmlsla.frg
>>
>> Perhaps it is useful for someone. As next step, I will try to
>> encapsulate the SLA format as a Java library.
>>
>>
> Something we might imagine for the future, based on some
> comments/questions/requests we get on the ML, would be for someone to make a
> layout template in Scribus, then later be able to use Tom's or another
> parsing method to create Scribus documents based on that template along with
> other kinds of file input. This doesn't subsequently leave Scribus out of
> the picture, since some tweaking of the layout would likely be needed.
>
> For certain kinds of production environments, this would be a great
> enhancement. This might even be a bridge between the various Libre Graphics
> projects, so that, for example, one could be working in Inkscape then use a
> java method to make a Scribus doc from a template.
>
> Greg
>
>
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