Darrell,
> > The good news now, of course, is that I can create a DocBook SGML file -
> > or someone can send me one - and with basically one command (a call to
> > a script) I can generate HTML, PDF, and text from that one file.
>
> How about contributing an e-smith-docbook-0.0.1-1.rpm? Would you like
> assistance with this?
Thanks for the suggestion - and the offer of assistance, but right now
I'm not at the point where I'd want to do that. Next month, June 18-22,
I will actually be taking a class here in Ottawa on XML/XSLT/XPath that
should, I hope, provide enough guidance that I can migrate entirely
away from the DSSSL stylesheets we use over to XSL stylesheets. As part of
that, the toolset will be changing.
My choice will probably be Xalan (http://xml.apache.org/xalan/) as that
seems to be what many others I know are using. The other choice many
people use is Saxon (http://users.iclway.co.uk/mhkay/saxon/), but there
seem to be some problems between it and Norman Walsh's latest DocBook
XSL stylesheets. Both of these are Java-based tools and require a Java
runtime environment or JDK (but both can be used from the command line).
So there will be changes in how we process the documents.
The good news is that there should be *NO* changes to the DocBook
documents except for adding one line at the top of the files and
modifying the <!DOCTYPE> tag:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN'>
and of course renaming the file to end in ".xml" instead of ".sgml".
Other than that, we *should* be set with our code, as we have been
very careful about writing SGML that could migrate to XML. We'll see.
The reason for this migration is primarily because all the effort of
developers seems to focused on XML tools right now (versus SGML)...
I personally am MUCH more comfortable working with the XML-based notation
of XSL stylesheets (versus the Scheme-based (sort of like LISP) notation
of DSSSL), so we may be more easily be able to customize our
stylesheet... and also there is strong indications that the next
major DocBook release, 5.0, will be *only* XML.
Regards,
Dan
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