discuss: XML/xsltproc-based toolchain for fedora?
Subject:
Re: [discuss] XML/xsltproc-based toolchain for fedora?
From:
"Robert P. J. Day" ####@####.####
Date:
26 Sep 2007 13:08:31 +0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709260904370.13275@localhost.localdomain>
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?
> I _just_ started documenting this basic process for a new
> documentation project at
> http://open-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=documentation:setting_up_docbook_transforms
> - give it a shot, and let me/us know if it works for you.
>
> Hope this helps.
ok, i'll give it a look. thanks.
rday
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