Re: DOCBOOK: Open Source SGML vs XML.

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Kevin Conder wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Jirka Kosek wrote:
> >
> > Would not be better to package XML version of DocBook to Linux
> > distributions as there are many new tools which are not able to process
> > SGML? I think that only reason to stay up with SGML for some OSS
> > projects are included and ignored sections.
> 
>         What about the DSSSL style-sheets that I've spent time customizing?
> Do I have to start all over? Is there an Open Source XML tool-chain
> that matches the speed and stability of the default Debian SGML
> tool-chain? From the daily bug reports on this list, I gather that there
> is not.

You can use all your DSSSL stylesheets, Jade and nsgmls also with XML
documents.

> 
>         What are the Open Source programs one would use to process the
> XML/DocBook documents? What licenses do they use? Do they match the Debian
> Free Guidelines? (Also, I'm curious which ones don't use Java.)

For example documentation for hypertext preprocesor PHP is entirely
written in XML DocBook and processed with Jade and DSSSL stylesheets.

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