can you link html to sgml?

[Richard -Gilligan- Uschold]

"Christopher B. Browne" wrote:

> Richard -Gilligan- Uschold writes:
>  > I have an html report that I want to call up from a link in the sgml
>  > help system.  I do not want to convert the html to sgml first, not by
>  > hand, anyway, as it was generated by directly by scheme.  Can this be
>  > done?
>
> I've got a DSSSL script [attached below] that can be used to transform
> HTML into "something almost-like-DocBook;" the results need to get
> cleaned up a tad in order to be used, but tend to at least be Useful
> Enough in avoiding the work of manually tagging it all.
>
> Usage is thus:
> % jade -t sgml -d wherever-dsl-file-got-put.dsl inputfile.html > output.docbook
>
> Note that the DSSSL script does _nothing_ about tables, and if you
> have funky HTML attributes like CLASS, FONT, and such, the script will
> pass them through unchanged, which might not be exactly what is
> wanted.

Unfortunately, my html file is one big table, with a header or two.


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