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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Conceptual model for processing DocBook SGML andXML


On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 06:04:21PM +0000, Dave Pawson wrote:
> At 03:40 09/01/2002 -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
> 
> >   Hum, one of the thing which strikes me is that there is no
> >direct
> >     DocBook XML -> TeX
> >transformations. Basically they require going through FO where the
> >semantic is lost and only content/formatting is left, where then TeX
> >is generated.
> >   Granted, LaTeX is not TeX, but isn't there more semantic to TeX than
> >just content/formatting . Wouldn't a direct DocBook XML -> TeX transformation
> >makes senses (I'm not asking if someone wants to do it or if it's simple ;-)
> 
> 
> Sebastian Rahtz seems to think using Latex is not a good approach.
> Almost for fun, I tried a java filter on the output of a transform,
> to do some fairly obvious stuff, going into Latex.
> 
> I didn't go deep enough to prove it out but it seemed not unreasonable.

  Okay, thanks everybody for the answers.
It still seems that going through FO is the prefered path for most.

Daniel

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