From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ronald Hayden To: Peter Toft , Subject: Re: DocBook roadmap? Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 14:42:00 -0000 Message-id: References: X-SW-Source: 2001-q2/msg00004.html > 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. The tools being used by the Darwin Doc Project are outlined here: http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/documentation/howto/html/Darwin_Doc _HOWTO.html#processing-xml There are a number of C- and Perl-based XSLT processing solutions in the works, but none of them that I've tried has successfully handled DocBook. This will certainly change in the next 6-9 months, but that's where it is now near as I can tell. On the editing side, there isn't anything really better than just using Emacs if you can stick with that. Certainly nothing mature (that I've seen) that a user not comfortable with tags is going to find very usable. That too will hopefully change in the next year. Of course I'm interested in hearing if other's experience varies. -- Ron Hayden