RE: Documentation in other formats?From: von Schwerdtner, Thomas (GXS, FPI)
> Personally I would think DocBook might make
> more sense. There are already stylesheets for
> just about every XML transformation for DocBook.
> So, you can either do current-XML -> DocBook and
> then use the existing PDF/LaTeX/HTML/RTF/whatever
> stylesheets or you can write whatever stylesheets
> you want on your own....it seems to me it would
>make sense to take advantage of DocBook's popularity..
Well, what you are basically saying is that DocBook is a good intermediate
rendering format that can be useful in generating any other format.
But this is not what DocBook is about, because DocBook is a format in which
one should write books, not format them.
I have some experience with DocBook, and didn't like a minute with it.
Sometimes I didn't really know which tag to use to insert an image, and
since we're trying hard to KISS (Keep it Simple), we decided not to go the
DocBook way.
Besides, we still have to see DocBook stylesheets that don't suck.
As for an intermediate output language there's FO, that can be made to
output in any format.
Currently there are projects (basically FOP) that output FO to PDF, RTF,
MIF, PCL, TEXT, HTML, PS, SVG, AWT and direct Java Print.
Guys, remember: FO is NOT a Fop format, it's a w3c standard.
And FO can be used with other projects, and FOP is not only PDF.
> <xsl:call-template name="I-am-not-a-guru-disclaimer"/>
Gee, the sitemap is sequential, the disclaimer came a bit late in the
pipeline ;-)
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