From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gregory Leblanc To: docbook-tools-discuss@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: DocBook roadmap? Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:14:00 -0000 Message-id: <987116985.16651.2.camel@grego1.cu-portland.edu> References: X-SW-Source: 2001-q2/msg00007.html On 12 Apr 2001 23:55:44 +0200, Peter Toft wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Ronald Hayden wrote: > > > > From: Peter Toft > > > 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