I spent several hours today getting the docbook-toys from SuSE 8.2 working
with the OpenPKG Release 1.3 versions of docbook, openjade, and opensp, and
in the process fixed a permissions problem with the ISO files in docbook,
and enable http support in opensp and openjade allowing the docbook XML
files to reference DTDs on remote systems.
The docbook-toys is a GPL'ed package providing a convenient front-end to
openjade, programs like db2html, db2ps, db2pdf, etc. and hide many of the
gory details of openjade, docbook, and friends.
My initial testing seems to be working, producing html on a FreeBSD 4.8
STABLE system comparable to that produced on SuSE 8.2 Professional. One
thing I just notice that is missing is a collateindex.pl script necessary
when producing automatic indexes.
I'm no DocBook, SGML, or XML expert by any means, but have been muddling my
way with it for our in-house documentation for a couple of years. Is there
anybody who would be interested in looking at my modifications and doing
some testing? My SRPMS are available via anon ftp or rsync using ssh:
ftp.celestial.com:/private/SPRMS/docbook-4.2-20031002.src.rpm
ftp.celestial.com:/private/SPRMS/docbook-toys-1.51.0-20031002.src.rpm
ftp.celestial.com:/private/SPRMS/openjade-1.3.2-20031002.src.rpm
ftp.celestial.com:/private/SPRMS/opensp-1.5-20031002.src.rpm
BTW: The docbook-toys.spec file is ugly, since I haven't done anything
beyond getting the basics to work.
Bill
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