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Subject: SGML to XML: Should I switch? How to switch?
This is my first post. I have tried to browse the mail-archive, the FAQ list, Google, with no luck. Apology, if this message should be posted to "docbook" or worse, it has been answered several times. I have been using DocBook SGML for a while with Debian tools (and recently with Ubuntu). It works, and nothing is needed to be fixed, except the infamous questions like: "Why not XML?" Frankly, my answer is that I have no idea why to switch and how to switch?! May I know where to find detailed information about these issues? I have got two types of issues. First, how much do I need to convert my current headers. A typical "main.sgml" would look like this following: ============================= <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.2//EN" [ <!ENTITY % ec0 SYSTEM "c0/c0.ent"> <!ENTITY % ec1 SYSTEM "c1/c1.ent"> ... %ec0; %ec1; ... ]> <book> &c0; &c1; ... </book> whereas "c0.ent" might look like this following: ================================= <!ENTITY c0 SYSTEM "c0/c0.sgml"> <!ENTITY c01 SYSTEM "c0/c01.sgml"> <!ENTITY c02 SYSTEM "c0/c02.sgml"> ... ================================= Second, how would the command lines look like? Usually in Debian/Ubuntu, it will be like this following: ================================== % rm -f c9/c93-indeks.sgml HTML.index % collateindex.pl -N -o c9/c93-indeks.sgml % sgmltools -b onehtml -j "-V html-index" main.sgml % collateindex.pl -o c9/c93-indeks.sgml HTML.index % sgmltools -b pdf main.sgml =================================== Thank you for any clues/URLs. References: * "DOCBOOK: sgml vs xml" http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook/200303/msg00166.html * "DocBook and XML" http://www.docbook.org/tdg5/en/html/appb.html * "SX" http://www.jclark.com/sp/sx.htm -- EL6
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