Thread: Re: [HACKERS] Documentation DTD
Rod Taylor writes: > This one is pretty simple. It's been announced that the docbook group > isn't looking to continue with SGML. I don't know where you got this from, but it's not true. DocBook 5 will support SGML. And as long as they publish DTDs you can use them with SGML tools anyway. -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net
On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 11:47, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Rod Taylor writes: > > > This one is pretty simple. It's been announced that the docbook group > > isn't looking to continue with SGML. > > I don't know where you got this from, but it's not true. DocBook 5 will > support SGML. And as long as they publish DTDs you can use them with SGML > tools anyway. Yes, jade and friends will work. But Fop is quickly catching up to the dsssl abilities and can already do some things much cleaner (title pages, headers and footers). Anyway, XML or SGML doesn't really matter. There are a number of enhancements I'd like to make to the doc process which won't be affected either way. Auto-generated example output, and others to help things stay in sync.
Rod Taylor writes: > Yes, jade and friends will work. But Fop is quickly catching up to the > dsssl abilities and can already do some things much cleaner (title > pages, headers and footers). The real concern is that the XSLT stylesheets aren't anywhere near the maturity of the DSSSL releases. I occasionally build the PostgreSQL documentation with various combinations of XSL tools and the results are basically too ugly to look at -- if you get anything to look at in the first place. -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net