Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] question re: marking index terms

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:35:46AM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> On 28 Mar 2001 17:55:42 +0100, Laszlo Kovacs wrote:
> > > Chances are that it's not supported.  gnome-db2html2 has a limited set
> > > of functionality that it supports at this point.  I don't expect that
> > > GNOME could deploy with good indexes in a release prior to GNOME 2.0,
> > > which means that we should be able to do things using XSLT rather than
> > > gnome-db2html2, which will give us much more complete functionality than
> > > we could hope to provide with gnome-db2html2.
> > > 
> > >     Greg
> > 
> > Hm ... I have no idea what XLST is, but I wonder how this approach would
> > affect Scrollkeeper and its index extraction. You know Scrollkeeper so
> > would you know the answer to this question?
> 
> XSLT is XML StyleSheets Language Translations (or something very much
> like that).  It's a programming language designed specificly for
> transforming XML into another form of XML or another formatted document.
> It will be used to replace gnome-db2html2, and probably the db2* scripts
> for GNOME authors as we move our docs to being truly XML compliant.

  Hum, I just joined this list. Concerning XSLT I will present it at
least briefly at my Guadec talk. There is a number of resources
on-line or not:
    - the spec http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
    - the home page at W3C 
      http://www.w3.org/Style/XSL/
    - an article online
      http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible/updates/14.html
    - a good but technical book
      XSLT Programmer's Reference 
      Michael Kay
      WROX Press
      ISBN 1-861003-12-9
    - and libxslt home page
      http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/
      (module libxslt in CVS require gnome-xml head libxml2)

Daniel

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