discuss: XML
Subject:
Re: XML
From:
Greg Ferguson ####@####.####
Date:
12 Jul 2003 03:13:29 -0000
Message-Id: <200307120309.h6C39qCs095864@hoop.timonium.sgi.com>
On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:34:51 -0400 Morgon Kanter ####@####.#### wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Tabatha Marshall ####@####.####
> wrote:
> > Well, you can try Morgon Kanter's suggestion, or you can also use
> > Openjade with the dsl (DSSSL) stylesheets.
>
> Openjade seems to be what everyone uses, but nobody likes (or am I wrong
> here? I've just never found anyone who particularly liked it).
I'm ok with it. It does the job just fine. Not particularly great
performance, but... Oh, and DSSSL is not the easiest thing to learn.
I think that's why it turns off a lot of folks.
> I'm not entirely sure (because I haven't tried), but it seems that
> xsltproc can handle Docbook SGML (and apparantly appling XSL
> transformations to it, or at least that's what I'm reading this as).
> From man xsltproc:
> --docbook
> The input document is DocBook SGML. Do not use the --docbook
> option of xsltproc to process XML DocBook documents, this option
> is only intended to provide some (limited) support of the SGML
> version of DocBook.
See the phrase "limited support"...that's indeed what you get (at least
the last time I tried it).
--
Greg
