Re: [docbook-apps] GSoC Project Idea: integrated LaTeX output support for the stylesheets

[Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@kovesdan.org>]

On 2013.04.06. 15:45, Stefan Seefeld wrote:
> > >if you will develop another XSLT based DB->TeX solution I strongly
> > >suggest to use XSLT 2.0 and reuse shared code from
> > >https://github.com/docbook/xslt20-stylesheets
> The primary reason for this work is to get rid of fop as a dependency to
> create pdfs.
> As far as I'm aware, at this point there is a single (Free) processor
> that can handle XSLT 2.0, so overall the situation wouldn't be much
> better for the purpose of helping the FreeBSD community to move to an
> XSL-based DB processing flow.
Yes, the goal of my proposed project is to improve the acceptance of 
DocBook, that is, providing more support for tooling. If DocBook can be 
used exclusively with free/open source tools, it can be suitable for 
open source and/or commercial but low-budget projects. I think using 
XSLT 2.0 would also be a bit limiting because of the somewhat limited 
support of XSLT 2.0. Anyway, this project is not just to help FreeBSD 
but FreeBSD is a good indicator of success since it is a big open source 
project, which has an extensive documentation.

Gabor