Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: perl/docbook2-converter

["Dave Brooks, BCS Systems" <dave at bcs dot co dot nz>]

Use an XSLT library and call it from perl to transform XML Docbook sources 
using the XSL style sheets. Or go all the way and use Ax-Kit 
(http://www.axkit.org/) to directly serve XML via Apache.


Dave

At 00:46 1/05/2002 +0000, Matt G. wrote:
>>From: Thomas Porschberg <thomas.porschberg@osp-dd.de>
>>To: docbook-apps-digest@lists.oasis-open.org
>>Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: perl/docbook2-converter
>>Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:24:11 +0200
>>
>>At the moment I convert my docbook-apps with
>>jade or xsltproc. Is there a way with perl too?
>
>You might consider that there are good reasons why DSSSL and XSL were 
>created for the task of transforming and formatting SGML and XML documents.
>That said, I'm not aware of a full implementation of DSSSL (i.e. one that 
>includes the transformations portion), since XSLT basically supercedes it.
>XSLT packs a surprising amount of text processing power, given the small 
>number of constructs it provides, but that's really not what it was 
>designed for.  So, there might be some good reasons to preprocess or query 
>XML DocBook documents with other tools or languages, such as Perl, but you 
>consider whether it's really the best tool for the job.