/ Mark Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | XSL Stylesheet Comment | ------------------ | | -- We need a mechanism for docbook-related XSL stylesheets to refer to the main | DocBook XSL Stylesheet (dbxsl) distribution.
What we need is XSL processors that use the entityResolver() to load the included and imported URIs. That would allow me to write <xsl:import href="http://nwalsh.com/..."/> and have "the right thing" happen. | What to do? | - Don't allow multiple versions of _main_ docbook-xsl-stylesheets. They really are upgrades, | making it unnecessary to do so. (Norm Walsh, upstream developer also made this point.) True, but it falls apart when I break something in a release. :-) It also makes it difficult for people to install my "experimental" releases along side the latest official release. | - Use the /etc/alternatives system to establish links that can be configured. | The link could be top-level: | /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets <-- | | - Ask Norm -- Maybe a catalog mechanism for the xsl stylesheets is in the works?? It's an issue with some fairly deep implications for XSLT implementations. (Mostly to do with how base URIs are calculated.) | /usr/share/sgml/docbook/ | sgml-dtd-3.1/ | sgml-dtd-4.0/ | xml-dtd-4.0/ (the DocBook DTD) The comment "(the DocBook DTD)" seesms out of place. They're all the DocBook DTD. | dsssl-stylesheets-1.54/ | xsl-stylesheets-1.12/ There's also a comment here "(DSSSL style sheets [sic] for DocBook)" that's next to the wrong line. | I think the proposed use of the term "SGML Application" as | | Any program used to view, edit, convert, process or apply any kind of | treatment to a document written using a SGML or XML DTD. | | is not a good idea. | | The term is already in wide use and has a very specific meaning: | An application of SGML, or SGML application, refers to a DTD. | (For example, see http://xml.coverpages.org/gen-apps.html ) Mark's right. And I still maintain that 'SGML' should be down played in favor of 'XML' because that's where the future is. And I made a comment somewhere else (on the sourceforge pages I think) to the effect that "Open Catalog" is not a good name. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | What is familiar is what we are used http://nwalsh.com/ | to; and what we are used to is most | difficult to 'Know'--that is, to see as | a problem; that is, to see as strange, | as distant, as 'outside us'.--Nietzsche
