Re: Transforming XML or other intermediate representation of Texinfo; category system

[Robert Dodier]

On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 6:19 PM Jacob Bachmeyer <jcb62281@gmail.com> wrote:

> Generating the @defindex commands is a simple matter of
> grep/sed/awk over the document
> to identify and extract the categories used if each category is to have
> its own mini-index.

Well, that's the most complex part of this whole operation, and it is
indeed currently implemented by a combination of bash, sed, and awk,
which I'd like to avoid if possible, hence my questions about working
with a parse tree of some kind.

best,

Robert Dodier