Re: DocBook roadmap?

[Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc@cu-portland.edu>]

On 12 Apr 2001 23:55:44 +0200, Peter Toft wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Ronald Hayden wrote:
> 
> > > From: Peter Toft <pto@sslug.dk>
> > > Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 23:13:31 +0200 (CEST)
> > > Subject: DocBook roadmap?
> > >
> > > I have now eight books in SGML/DocBook 3.1 running on
> > > Linux boxes. Should I consider to swap the source to
> > > XML at some point? What is the status on the XML
> > > DocBook resources??
> >
> > 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.
    Greg