RE: Small DTD problem

["Phillip Shelton" <shelton usq edu au>]

I am not worried about XML or SGML but rather are you still using Version
3.1 of the SGML or Version 4.1 of the SGML

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnome-doc-list-admin gnome org
> [mailto:gnome-doc-list-admin gnome org]On Behalf Of Ali Abdin
> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 12:44 PM
> To: Gregory Leblanc
> Cc: 'Alexander Kirillov'; gnome-doc-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Small DTD problem
>
>
> * 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
>
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