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Re: DocBook-XML and conditional sections
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- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook-XML and conditional sections
- From: Adam Di Carlo <adam at onshore dot com>
- Date: 02 Oct 1999 13:40:52 -0400
- References: <199909290919.LAA15640@ezili.sis.pasteur.fr>
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Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@debian.org> writes:
> > | Also, our documentation leader prefers DSSSL :-)
Hey hey! Don't put words in my mouth. Honestly, I'd prefer any
"toolchain" that works for the backends we need -- printable output,
HTML, ASCII, and manpages. DSSSL does ok with HTML (using Jade's
transformation system); um, almost acceptably with printable output
(via JadeTeX); with a little help from 'lynx -dump' for ASCII; and
using SGMLSasp can do manpages now.
And the toolchain has to be free in the DFSG sense, end-to-end. Since
free Java processors aren't yet "production ready", it is a
problematic solution right now, but I can see that being solved in the
near future (we hope).
Right now, actually, most Debian Documentation is in a
Linuxdoc-derived DebianDoc SGML DTD, which uses SGMLSasp to render.
It covers all required backends but is sub-optimal in that there are
no standards behind the styling system. Didier PH Martin, a DSSSL
advocate, has offered to help with an exploratory DSSSL stylesheet for
that. I don't think it would be too hard to transform the tagset to
DocBook either.
> > Yeah, I'm fond of it myself. Clean, elegant, powerful. But I
> > think XSL is the future.
> I'll have to learn it. In the mean time, DSSSL "works for me".
I like XSL in principle, though I haven't worked with it much yet.
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