discuss: The various tools available
Subject:
Re: The various tools available
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
10 Sep 2001 22:34:26 -0000
Message-Id: <20010910183313.J3209@lupercalia.net>
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:49:21PM +0530, Vivek Venugopalan wrote:
> Hello folks
> I am now a little bit confused on the plethora of tools available for
> docbook and the subtleties involved. Let me list them and put down what I
> understand please correct me if I am wrong
>
> 1. jade - the Original dsssl processor by James Clark. Not supported
> anymore?
> 2. openjade - the new dsssl processor that is under ongoing development.
> 3. sgml2xxx - the original linuxdoc tools - not suitable for docbook work
> 4. db2xxxx - something from Redhat?
> 5. docbook2xxxx - something from suse?
> 6. docbook-utils - Something from Redhat but I dont know what it is.
7. xsltproc and libxml from Gnome. I'm using them for my local
processing now. They are absolutely the fastest tool I have found yet.
I can run the Consultants-HOWTO in about 4 seconds. Small howtos run
typically in subsecond times.
Plus, no environment settings to worry about. Just pass an xsl
stylesheet on the command line, and that's that.
8. There is an email based docbook sgml processor at
####@####.#### Send a single .sgml file (the extension
matters) as a mime attachment, and you'll get back a message with log
information and a url to the html version and a text version.
This way you don't even have to install the tools at all.
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