Re: Small DTD problem

[Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu>]

* Gregory Leblanc (GLeblanc cu-portland edu) wrote at 00:42 on 10/10/00:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alexander Kirillov [mailto:kirillov math sunysb edu]
> > 
> > On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 10:17:24AM +1000, Phillip Shelton wrote:
> > > But maybe it should now point to DocBook V4.1 instead of 
> > V3.1 as the latest
> > > is V4.1
> > 
> > It was discussed here - and decided against. Dave Mason, one of our
> > DocBook gurus, was of the opinion that 4.1 is not ready for prime time
> > yet. Also, the DocBook 4.1 packages are not yet widespread, so
> > using  4.1 would create headaches for package builders. Thus, we
> > decided to postpone adoption of 4.1 until after gnome 1.4
> 
> That was NOT the understanding that I had.  I thought that Dave had argued
> against using XML/XSL (or at very least against the XSL stuff) for the time
> being.  The problem was that there were not' any good XSL engines, so we
> needed/wanted to stay away from that.  DocBook SGML 4.1 can be processed in
> exactly the same was as DocBook 3, one simply needs updated DTDs installed.
> Two questions from this.  Ali, what DTD have you been using to develop
> against?  There shouldn't be many changes from 3 to 4, so supporting both
> may be trivial, at least for our work.
> Second question, Dave, did I get that right?  I know that the LDP has been
> processing 4.1 with the DSSSL stylesheets, and they look as good as
> processing with the 3.1 stylesheets (which means that HTML is pretty good,
> everything else sucks).  
> It's possible that I've missed another reason for not using 4.1, but I can't
> figure out what it is.

gnome-db2html2 /should/ work with DocBook XML. It is probably not 100% DocBook
XML compliant though (hell, its not 100% DocBook SGML compliant).

Regards,
Ali