Gordon Sadler wrote: > On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 03:11:37PM +0200, Rafa? Kleger-Rudomin wrote: > > Is there any effort to provide some standard of processing scripts > > for LSB systems? Some dbx2html, etc.? > > > > There is a chance to avoid the mess that sgml suffers from, by > > providing some standard tool for processing DocBook XML far before > > independent developers create own scripts. > > > > If there was not such an effort, I would like to start one (work on > > concepts, and provide scripts) > > > Suggest you see the KDE project. Waldo Bastian, IIRC, has already > created just such a parser. They use it to display documentation stored > in docbook format.
It's not Waldo Bastian, but it's Stephan Kulow who's written a native DocBook viewer. The Gnome project has an equivalent tool, and both are based on libxml/libxslt. But Rafa was asking here for a conversion tool, with a wrapper around it like the ones that the docbook-utils package provides. The KDE project has such a conversion tool (named "meinproc", don't ask me why), but this tool has its own built-in Formal Public Identifier entity resolver. This solves the path problems, but also means that so far we are unable to use out-of-the-box tools, with or without wrappers around them. And this is Not Good (tm). -- Éric Bischoff - Documentation and Localization Caldera (Deutschland) GmbH - Linux for eBusiness Tel: +49 9131 7192 300 - Fax: +49 9131 7192 399 http://www.caldera.de/
