RE: XML/DocBook Tools [was Re: GNOME Documentation Style Guide]

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Mueth [mailto:d-mueth uchicago edu]
> 
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> 
> > This reminds me of something else. I'm seeing people having trouble
> > with db2html, gnome-doc-tools-2.0 and the PNG DTD. Why are we still
> > using this? Are we at all in a position just to jump to XML and
> > DocBook 4? We talked about this months ago and missed it for the 1.4
> > release. Can we make it for 1.4.1, or at least try it for a single
> > module? Kjarten was considering a test release of gnome-applets to
> > see whether all the fixes actually worked for everyone. Can we think
> > about trying to get all of that to XML and see whether it works?
> > If not, we need to update the handbook with the stuff about the
> > extra magic required to get things to work on RH 7.1, I think.
> >
> > I have picked the wrong week to ask this, since I know John Fleck is
> > out of town for a week and he will doubtless have comments. But I
> > really would like to get an idea of what we're still waiting for
> > before we shift. For the toolchain as a whole? For the tools to
> > become available for all distros on Linux and in BSD ports and so
> > on? Or what?
> 
> Does anybody understand what is wrong with 
> gnome-doc-tools-2.0 on RH 7.1
> (or similar configurations)?  It sounds like quite a few 
> people have had
> problems with this (including myself). Can anybody supply 
> some information
> here about where the breakage is occuring or how one can fix it?  Has
> anybody actually gotten things to work?

You ask about 1 thing in the subject, and something completely different in
the body of this message.  Which do you wanna know?  ;-)
I've got the hacked GNOME SGML DTD working just fine on my system.  Jade
eats it just fine.  docbook2* only works on docbook documents now, so you
need to use "jw -c /etc/sgml/catalog file.sgml -o dir".  This needs to go
into our makefile template in CVS, BTW, so that things will work on RH7.1.
Kmaraas volunteered to do this, I think, but we couldn't catch Dan online at
the time, to clear it with him.  Dan, is this change ok to make in CVS?  

Now, for that XML issue.  DocBook XML on Red Hat is still fuxed, AFAIK.  I
haven't seen action on either of the bugs I've filed, but I'll make some
trouble about that later on today.  We know what the problem is, we just
need to figure out how to fix it.  Later,
	Greg