Re: libxslt in KDE?

[Eric Bischoff <eric@caldera.de>]

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On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 09:25:21AM -0700, Bob Stayton wrote:
> Did you see this item from the docbook-apps list?
> Have you tried libxslt?  Other messages indicate it
> is quite fast, and that it handles docbook.

I tested it.

I'm quite ignorant about "KDE using libxslt for their next release".
Perharps indirectly, through Scrollkeepr. Perharps for the upcoming
DocBook browser, I don't know. Coolo?

I only know that Coolo (at KDE) has recently set up a system named "poxml"
which allows us to translate docs using the xgettext/msgmerge mechanism
(po files used as a translation memory). This system is meant to allow
easiest updates of DocBook documentation translations. This system
is based, if I remember correctly, on libxml, which is the basement
for libxslt.

I plan to package xalan/xerces as part of the docbook-tools project.
You don't need java, excepted for printed output (though FOP).
Jade is also fine, but it isn't XSL style sheets but DSSSL ones.

> > > I'm putting together the Darwin Documentation Project, and have been playing
> > > with various DocBook XML solutions for a few months.  The current status, in
> > > my experience so far, is that there are mature processing solutions as long
> > > as you can use a Java-based solution.  This doesn't mean a Java application,
> > > but Java commands that you call from the command-line.
> > 
> > Any clues about the performance compared to jade which
> > I use to do SGML->HTML/PS/PDF
> 	
> I haven't tried this myself (yet), but libxslt is very fast, and should
> be stable and mostly bug-free at this point.  www.xmlsoft.org/XSLT I
> think.  I know that KDE is planning to use this for their next release,
> as will GNOME, for their next major release.

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