docbook: docbook & xml
Subject:
Re: docbook & xml
From:
Gregory Leblanc ####@####.####
Date:
10 Aug 2001 06:33:43 -0000
Message-Id: <997424963.7633.6.camel@peecee.linuxweasel.com>
On 09 Aug 2001 12:26:12 +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've looked on LDP-Author-Guide and it mentions the subj.,
> but I have some unclear things:
>
> Are xsl references allowed? if not, transformation
> to html by viewers will be done with some standard
> xsl stylesheets?
Well, they're allowed, but they won't be respected at the moment, since
all of our document processing is done via DSSSL. As for "standard"
XSLt stylesheets, when things move that way, Norm Walsh's stylesheets
will probably be used, along with the nice customization layer that Dan
York has hacked up for us.
> Will the transformation be done by the client with xsl
> stylesheets or users will get html files transformed
> by a script using xsl stylesheets? (like sgml2html
> for example, but using xslt)
There are a couple of help browsers on the horison with this capability,
both of which are based on libxslt (www.xmlsoft.org). They'll end up
converting things to HTML and then rendering the HTML, since doing
anything else is a lot more work at this point.
> And finally, if this is a standard, there will be standard
> xsl stylesheets available, right? (to make html, pdf using
> fop...) These are the stylesheets?
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/docbook/xsl/
Yeah, those are the stylesheets that everybody starts with, because Norm
has already done most of the hard work for us, and the rest is just
customizing things a bit. Hope that helps,
Greg
