Hi
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Philip Wadler wrote:
> Volker suggests using SGML/DSSSL for documentation. If one were to
> take this route, I think XML/XSLT would be a more sensible combination.
Why do you think so? I see the following advantages of SGML/DSSSL over
XML/XSL:
- open source tools available
- SGML is much better for ordinary text editors. XML markup is quite
heavy, because no tag minimisation is supported.
- DTDs such as TEI-Lite and DocBook are for SGML. However, a XML-DTD for
DocBook is being developed.
SGML can be converted to XML, using a tool like sgmlnorm, I think.
> Volker (or anyone else reading this), can you tell me where to find a
> user manual for DSSSL? I've never been able to locate one.
Here are some of my DSSSL bookmarks:
An Introduction to DSSSL
http://csg.uwaterloo.ca/~dmg/dsssl/tutorial/tutorial.html
This FTP directory contains the DSSSL specification in various formats.
ftp://ftp.ornl.gov/pub/sgml/WG8/DSSSL/
James Clark's DSSSL page
http://www.jclark.com/dsssl/
DSSSL documentation project
http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dsssldoc/
DSSSL Syntax Summary
http://www.tiac.net/users/bingham/dssslsyn/index.htm
> I'd also
> like an article for SIGPLAN or JFP (or both) describing DSSSL, if you
> think you can write one please let me know.
I don't think, my knowledge of DSSSL is deep enough for this. I'm also not
sure, if they would take articles from mere students of computer science.
:)
bye
