Re: stylesheets

[David Merrill <david lupercalia net>]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 09:02:50AM -0500, David Mason wrote:
> David Merrill <david lupercalia net> writes:
> 
> 
> > I am now on the gdp list as well as the ldp and the kdp lists. I am
> > going to be looking at how the gdp works and how the ldp might work
> > together with you toward solving documentation issues.
> > 
> > One thing I noticed right off the bat is that you are using your own
> > modified version of the docbook stylesheets. The ldp does that as
> > well, and it seems you are solving the same issues in pretty much the
> > same ways. I am not a stylesheet expert, so I could be wrong, but I
> > think we could work together on a common stylesheet.
> > 
> > Would you be interested in approaching this as a joint project?
> 
> 
> One thing to apply to this is that the GDP plans on moving to XML
> using XSL in the near future - this may not be the case for the other
> projects.

The LDP is also going to be moving toward xml. I don't know about kde
and debian, although I suspect they will be as well. It seems to be
the future.

> I have a feeling we will be able to do more with XSL in the long run
> and it may be more than just a matter of simply applying style - so
> the possibilities of the projects diverging are greater. Having said
> that, we have always communicated well as we are bound by the common
> thread of being writers so it is certainly a possibility.

Now that the tools are moving from sgml to xml, we need to talk about
how we can all work together toward a common standard. It would be a
shame to diverge unnecessarily.

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