discuss: Gnome Help 2.0
Subject:
Re: Gnome Help 2.0
From:
John Fleck ####@####.####
Date:
17 Jul 2001 03:10:42 -0000
Message-Id: <20010716210908.E1045@inkstain.net>
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:05:36AM -0300, Jorge Luiz Godoy Filho wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, ####@####.#### wrote:
> >
> > We're using xsl, so what I would need is a customization layer for
> > Norman Walsh's (fabulous) stylesheets.
>
> We, here, is the Gnome project?
Eeek. Yeah, sorry. I'm the guy working on the stylesheet/help
rendering system for GNOME. Our plan is to use libxslt to render docs
directly from DocBook on the fly using customizations to Norman
Walsh's stylesheets.
>
> > Daniel Veillard has kindly added DocBook sgml support to libxslt, so
> > this also is backwards compatible to sgml docs.
>
> Cool!
Yeah, we all collectively owe Daniel a great deal of beer, or at very
least love and adoration. :-)
>
> > Because of the specific needs of our help system, there may be
> > functional tweaks required - what I'd want from y'all is an xsl that
> > creates html that looks the way you'd like, which I will then tweak
> > to make it fit the functional needs of our help browser.
> >
> > Are LDP docs primarily sgml, xml or what?
>
> SGML documents with a customized DSSSL stylesheet.
>
> We'll also have a customized XSL stylesheet.
>
> And, on the resulting HTML, we apply some CSS.
OK. We oughta be able to work with something along those lines.
Cheers,
--
John Fleck
####@####.#### (h), http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/
