RE: Small DTD problem

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----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.
	Greg