Sounds like a plan to me, probably a stupid question but....
I  presume they are compatible with gnome-doc-utils ? as quite a few 
components
within gnome use gnome-doc-utils and xml2po for automatic generation of
localized versions of help files.....

Just my 2 cents..

Matt


Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 1 What is it?
>
> SUNWgnome-xml-share is a package that contains docbook sgml and xsl 
> stylesheets.  It's used for generating the gtk-docs and the GNOME
> html content and user guides.
>
> 2 Historical background
>
> Given that there was (and is) no experise in the JDS team with this
> stuff, we took that SuSE (8?) spec files and wrapped them into a
> Solaris spec file, only changing whatever was absolutely necessary.
>
> 3 The problem
>
> We have not upgraded or fixed any part of it since it was
> created in February 2004.  By now it fossilized, has lots of
> bugs and no-one (including me) dares touch it.  Speak up if
> you do.  The stylesheets we ship are no longer available anywhere
> on the net and the maintainers advise against using them.
> They may well be the reason for the gtk+ api doc build taking
> hours(!).  Having looked at the spec files and the sources today,
> I think I would need a few weeks to come up to speed and I really
> really don't want to waste that much time with this.
>
> 4 The proposal
>
> Given that we still don't have any expertise in this area, I suggest
> we dump the SuSE spec files and use the latest Fedora Core ones.
> We could use the latest SuSE ones, but they are far more complicated
> and generally uglier than the Fedora ones.
>
> This will change the directory structure under /usr/share/sgml and
> /usr/share/xml.  (It's looks nice and tidy, unlike the current
> SuSE heritage.)  It will include more and more up-to-date stylesheets.
>
> I'm planning to include the following FC6 packages:
>
>       docbook-dtds-1.0-30.1.src.rpm
>       docbook-style-dsssl-1.79-1.src.rpm
>       docbook-style-xsl-1.69.1-5.1.src.rpm
>       sgml-common-0.6.3-18.src.rpm
>
> They seem pretty straight forward, and probably wouldn't require
> any changes to work with pkgbuild.  This would make it easy to
> update to a newer set of FC rpms, should we need to do so.
> These spec files come with a bunch of patches. Since we're not the
> creators of these patches and don't really know their status,
> I will declare them to be upsteam bug fixes, to keep my patch
> statistics favourable.
>
> 5 Request
>
> Before I start doing this, if you have any comments, objections, or
> if you insist on doing this yourself, please let me know ASAP.
>
> Thanks,
> Laca
>
>
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