Re: Detecting stylesheets and DTDs

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Jody Goldberg wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 07:02:42PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
> > Is the real root problem that we don't have a canonical upstream
> > stylesheet/dtd package, and that these packages therefore seem to vary
> > by distribution?
> yes.
>
>
> > What would I have to do to get the stylesheets and DTDs? Is there a
> > single tarball I could just download?
> Not that I know of.
>
> While trying to package gnumeric 1.0 I used the gnome-doc package in
> Debian testing and unstable.  With a cut and pasted build script
> from Greg Leblanc things finally built for me.  They did not build
> for Mandrake users or Red Hat 7.2 users.  A bit more kicking and
> screaming and it began to build for them.  However, all of us were
> getting different results !  The documentation for the style sheets
> in the gnome-docu package were advocating things that were not
> working on some platforms.  Eventually in desparation I attempted to
> install a copy of 'the one true style sheet' in Gnumeric.  This
> revealed that there were THREE copies of the damn thing in
> gnome-docu.
>
> There are 2 issues that need to be addressed
> 1) We need a canonical package the the distributions can include
> which will ensure that all necessary style sheets are available and 
> registered.
>
> 2) We need a build script that is not cut-n-pasted through
> generations of packages.
If you have a red hat system, I found Tim Waugh's XML packages worked 
pretty well:
http://cyberelk.net/tim/docbook/index.html

Installing them should set you up with a good xml catalog and has a nice 
script "xmlto" that can be used to process docbook/xml documents to 
html, man, ps, pdf, etc.

James.

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