Re: Detecting stylesheets and DTDs

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 07:02:42PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 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.

> I mean, there's no issue depending on third-party stuff that's easily
> downloaded and installed via make/configure. We depend on audiofile
> for example.
> 
> What would I have to do to get the stylesheets and DTDs? Is there a
> single tarball I could just download?
> 

There is a tarball that is canonical with respect to content, but not
with respect to make/configure and (for the purposes of this
discussion) the all-important catalog registration.

Installation is generally done either by hand or through packages from
a third party.

John