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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XSL from DocBook refEntry -> man
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, David Hardeman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 09:09:40AM +0200, Jirka Kosek wrote: > > > any XSL stylesheets to convert refEntry DocBook documents to man pages? > > > > Look at http://docbook2x.sf.net > > Yes, but those tools were perl tools as far as I could understand, I'm > looking for "true" XSL stylesheets (thinking about writing them > myself, just want to make sure that no such sheets already exist > first) > You can't use XSL stylesheets to generate man pages, not without a lot of klugery anyhow. XSLT is designed to transform XML documents into other XML documents, and any attempt to make XSLT generate non-XML output is extremely troublesome, and in some cases XSLT will not allow you to make certain output constructions that you need to do because they violate the rules of XML. -- Rafael R. Sevilla <sevillar@team.ph.inter.net> +63(2) 8177746 ext. 8311 Programmer, InterdotNet Philippines +63(917) 4458925 http://dido.engr.internet.org.ph/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT d- s:- a- C++++ UL+++ P+++ L+++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w--- O- M-- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t+ 5 X+ R tv+ b+++ DI++ D+ G e++ h! r++ y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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