Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBk XML -> HTML and ?roff

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.COM>]

> / R Signes <samael@manxome.org> was heard to say:
> 
> | Finally, I'm trying to find something like XML::DocBook -- a perl module for
> | manipulating DocBook.  
> 
> What sort of manipulation? You could easily build something like that
> on top of XML::DOM, but I can't think of any DocBook-specific methods.

You might also look at XML::XPath.  It uses DOM internally,
but I find its syntax easier to use than XML::DOM.  It uses
XPath expressions ("the regular expressions of XML") to
find pieces of your document to manipulate.

bobs
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