discuss: XML/xsltproc-based toolchain for fedora?
Subject:
Re: [discuss] XML/xsltproc-based toolchain for fedora?
From:
"Dan Scott" ####@####.####
Date:
26 Sep 2007 13:37:58 +0000
Message-Id: <fbb0d11d0709260637k529c5bb4ne25b1d63efaf35f2@mail.gmail.com>
On 26/09/2007, Robert P. J. Day ####@####.#### wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Dan Scott wrote:
>
> > On 26/09/2007, Robert P. J. Day ####@####.#### wrote:
> > >
> > > hi, recent subscriber, first time poster -- i recently became a
> > > maintainer for one of the TLDP guides (LKMPG, if that makes any
> > > difference), and the internal makefile that comes with it is based
> > > on jade and SGML. i'm interested in creating a new version that
> > > uses the newer XML/xsltproc tools.
> > >
> > > does anyone on this list have a working toolchain that just
> > > drops into a fedora 7 system that i can use for the conversion, or
> > > at least to start writing some new documentation? thanks.
> > >
> > > rday
> > >
> >
> > Hi Robert:
> >
> > I can't absolutely guarantee that it will work on Fedora 7, but
> > assuming you have both xsltproc (package name is often libxslt)
>
> which it is
>
> > and xalan installed on your system, the rest of the necessary pieces
> > for good XHTML and reasonable PDF transforms can be pulled directly
> > from their repositories on the Web.
>
> i'm confused -- why would you need both xsltproc *and* xalan? aren't
> both of them just XSLT processors? it's kind of like saying you need
> both xsltproc and saxon, isn't it? or am i just confused here?
Ah... gee. Good point. I think somewhere in my primordial mind I
recalled using a xalan / fop toolchain from years back, and the Java
association got muddled into a phantom dependency. So ditch xalan,
then. All I'm using is xsltproc.
--
Dan Scott
Laurentian University
