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Re: docgen, htx, enhanced HTML?

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Feb 15, 2002
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On 15 Feb 2002, at 12:26, Robert Craig wrote:

> 
> Ed Davis writes:
> > But, what is an .htx file (Enhanced HTML?), and how does one
> > produce it?  Is there a special word processor or editor?
> > Where can I find more info?  I've searched the mailing list
> > archive for "htx", and did not see anything describing it.
> 
> ".htx" is a file type that Junko made up for her own purposes.
> .htx files are a superset of HTML.
> There's no documentation for it, other than her Euphoria code.
> We use it to generate the Euphoria docs
> in both .html and plain text forms, as well as the
> Euphoria Archive pages on the Web site. 
> One new "HTML" tag that she defined is called "_archive",
> e.g.
> 
> <_archive
>   color=blu
>   href="euphoria23setup.exe"
>   title="Euphoria Installer"
>   size=1000
>   date="Feb 15/02"
>   name="Al Gonzales"
>   description="The alpha release of a fancy Windows installer for Euphoria.
>    It uses the free <a href=http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php>Inno
>    Setup</a>
>    utility. Al also provided his <a href=setup.zip>setup source files</a>."
> >
> 
> When we update the Web site, we edit these _archive entries and
> add new ones, then run her generator to produce proper HTML 
> (and it also now produces an archive.edb database).
> 
> It's a handy way to do things. Feel free to invent your
> own new "HTML" tags.

Or SGML or XML. 
HTML tags are technically *registered* standards. 
XML are a bit fuzzier, set out for possible release of internal tags.
SGML can be registered, but if used internally, don't haveto be.

Like:
<h1>C </h1> <fld01>C</fld01> <br>
<fld29> </fld29> <fld18> </fld18> <br>
1. <defblk> <fld20>01</fld20> <Syntax> </Syntax> 
<Semantic>abbr</Semantic> <Jmp>candle</Jmp> </defblk> <br>
2. <defblk> <fld20>02</fld20> <Syntax> </Syntax> 
<Semantic>abbr</Semantic> <Domain>Elec.</Domain> 
<Jmp>capacitance</Jmp> </defblk> <br>

etc... <br> should technically be <br/> for xml or sgml, but not html. But i 
wrote it for Tiggr before the term "xml" was coined, so just who is breaking 
the standards? hmmm? Anyhow, mine works for Tiggr, and stil looks nice in 
web browsers. 

See:
Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
Author, Open Source XML Database Toolkit, Wiley August 2000
Co-author: The XML Specification Guide, Wiley 1999; Mastering XML, Sybex 
2001

Who i talk to just about every day.

Kat