Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

[Dave Pawson <DaveP@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk>]

At 12:56 11/04/2002 -0500, Matt Reynolds wrote:


>Ant is pretty much a "Java Make", but that doesn't do it proper
>justice.  Read http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/intro.html for the
>whole deal.
>
>As it's written in Java, simply pick your favorite JVM.
>
>As to it's ability to process DocBook, that seems to be more dependant
>on the underlying processors' ability to do their jobs.  So far, I
>haven't had a whole lot of luck with this.  By "this" I mean using the
>native Ant calls, rather than simply "exec'ing" the code itself.
>
>Not that using exec is bad, just I'd prefer to learn the "Ant way" of
>doing things.
>
>If I ever get it all working, I'll post a Jar file :)

Now you've all got me curious :-)
I'm off to do some more reading.

Tks for the input.
Regards DaveP