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[David Mason <dcm chelseafc labs redhat com>]

To: Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>
Cc: "'Ali Abdin'" <aliabdin aucegypt edu>,
	  "Rebecca J. Walter" <rjp mail tele dk>,
	  Dan Mueth <d-mueth uchicago edu>,  GDP <gnome-doc-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: A thought:
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From: "David C. Mason" <dcm redhat com>
Date: 28 Nov 2000 09:06:36 -0500
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Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu> writes:

> Well since Dave hasn't chimed in, I thought I'd see if I could stir
> up some trouble.  :-)

Chiming now!

> The new tools actually work reasonably well with DocBook 3 and DocBook 4,
> both SGML and XML, using the DSSSL stylesheets, right now.  Unfortunately,
> there are a few bugs left in the new tools, and the packaging of the new
> tools is quite broken.  I'm hoping to badger Eric into getting both of these
> resolved within a week or two, so that we can actually sanction the new
> tools, and perhaps allow people to use DocBook XML.  SGML using DocBook 3.1
> and the GNOME PNG Variant 1.1 are what we'll be using for 1.4.


This is the key - once packaged and easily installed by all levels of
users/writers the move makes more sense. This is on of the arguments
for sticking with DB3.1 for GNOME 1.4.


> The GDP Handbook standards and procedures make all of our docs very "forward
> compatible", with the exception of images (this will get changed post 1.4).
> By forward compatible, I mean that they're almost XML docs already, and that
> the transition to DocBook 4 will be relatively painless.

No problemo! Again Greg is correct.



> Unfortunately, I don't think Mozilla will have this when it's
> released.  :-( Perhaps it will return in a later version, but it's
> hard to predict.

The XSL(T) implementation for Mozilla was being done by a company (the
name escapes me right now). They did not do very much work at all and
early on in the Mozilla cycle it was decided that XSL would not make
it into the first version. There have been no other attempts to my
knowledge.

Sure Norm's XSL Mod Stylesheets work well, but using the readily
available tools (as few as they are) mostly mean using Java... and we
don't want to go there on the Linux and BSD sides of GNOME.

</chime>


Dave

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David Mason
Red Hat Advanced Development Labs
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