Re: Q) Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Converting from DocBook/SGML to DocBook/XML

[Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>]

Ian Castle writes:
 > Currently, passivetex is probably happier sat on top of the TeXlive
 > distro. Which I don't have - and isn't RPM based which is important to

I am working on that :-}

 > Passivetex is perhaps more "arcane" than jadetex - either way, it

I dont agree. it does not have the bizarre intermediate representation
to fight with

 > likely that fop will develop quicker as it has a fairly active
 > development community... does anyone other than Sebastian work on
 > passivetex?

not really. yes, FOP moves faster

 > Currently, I consider the DSSSL toolchain to be in "stable, maintenance"
 > mode, while active development and future leaps in functionality will
 > come with the continuing development of the XSL toolchain.

I'd concur with that

sebastian