Re: switching to Docbook 4.1 XML

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> 
>   Actually xsltproc (or rather any recent version of the libxml2 library)
> systematically check for XML Catalogs rooted in /etc/xml/catalog (contrary
> to SGML catalogs this is completely progressive and doesn't harm performances
> when there is no catalog to be used). There is also a tool (xmlcatalog) 
> which allows to build and maintain such catalogs and we expect to have
> then automatically maintained from the packaging systems (RPM, deb, ...)
> when new DTDs or XML resources are added to a system.
> 

Right, and of course we should all use xml catalogs. But until we reach
that brave new world, --catalogs will read our stodgy old sgml and help us
make the smooth transition to the xml catalog world.

Cheers,

John