Re: (sgml vs XML)+indexing

[John Sheehan <John Sheehan ireland sun com>]

Eric Baudais wrote:
> 
> I think that the conversion from SolBook to DocBook wouldn't be too hard.  If 
> SolBook is a subset of DocBook it should use about the same tags, so the 
> conversion shouldn't be too hard.
> 
Solbook is SGML based and is indeed a subset of Docbook, so it's simple to 
convert to Docbook, but not in the opposite direction since the GDP use 
certain inline tags which are not in SolBook. 

> I would strongly advise against changing all the GDP docs to SolBook or any other 
> DTD because that would be too much work for not much gain.  If it came to surface 
> that there are problems with the DocBook DTD, we can bring them up with OASIS.  I 
> would much rather see the GDP help improve DocBook (which is actively developed) 
> then switch to another DTD.
> 

Sun is extending SolBook to include the extra inline tags used by the GDP.
And we are creating filters for the metadata to allow us to flip a doc in
DocBook to SolBook and back again.  The reason we want to work internally 
in Solbook is that all the back-end corporate tools for editing, publishing, 
and localisation are based on the SolBook DTD.  But with the filters we can 
issue and exchange Gnome docs in DocBook.  
 
- John