> With all of the many and great tools for handling XML--XSLT,
> XQuery, etc., I was wondering whether there were any
> W3C-standard means (or plans for such means), to take a text
> document, attach a "schema" to it in some manner (externally
> or with some code at the top) and then parse the code
> according to rules defined in the schema into an XML (or
> possibly other) language?
If the syntax of the input text file can be described using regular
expressions, then you can use unparsed-text() and xsl:analyze-string in XSLT
2.0.
If they can't, then you can write a grammar in JavaCC...
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
