discuss: Summary of GNU/Linux Tools HOWTO -- could you add this as a work-in-progress
Subject:
Re: Summary of GNU/Linux Tools HOWTO -- could you add this as a
work-in-progress
From:
####@####.#### (Chris Karakas)
Date:
11 Feb 2003 22:29:31 -0000
Message-Id: <3E495A90.66FA4550@karakas-online.de>
Morgon Kanter wrote:
>
> > Does the LDP have a particular preference on SGML or XML (DocBook)....
> > Chris have you or are you ready to release the scripts?
>
> I think Eric Raymond summed this up best in the DocBook Demystification
> Howto, part 11.2, "Why SGML DocBook is dead"
>
Those proclaimed to be dead live longer - goes a german saying ;-)
For me SGML is still alive and well. I can produce documents like
http://www.karakas-online.de/EN-Book/index.html
with all the other formats as in
http://www.karakas-online.de/EN-Book/formats.html
at the click of a button (with my scripts, of course).
On the other side, I read that, while XML may be good at rendering
online formats, it is still a pain when it comes to print ones (like
PDF).
And, AFAIK XML is a subset of SGML, so SGML can't be dead, technically
at least, without XML being dead too.
--
Regards
Chris Karakas
http://www.karakas-online.de
