Re: is there a future for the DSSSL standard? (one testimonial)

["Wilson, James.W" <James.W.Wilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 23:24:00 -0500 (EST)
> From: Tony Graham <tgraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: is there a future for the DSSSL standard?
> 
> At 13 Nov 1998 17:17 +0100, Bas Peters wrote:
>  > We are planning to implement a formatting routine for bibliographic
>  > records and high on my priority list is Jade and DSSSL. I have been
>  > prototyping a bit and it works fine, but before investing more time and
>  > money, I was wondering: is there a future for the DSSSL standard. Until
>  > now it is very difficult to collect information about using the
>  > standard. I have the idea that the DocBook style-sheets are succesfull,
>  > but that not much people are creating style-sheets for other DTD's.

in our company (a very large legal publisher) we have very successfully 
used Jade and DSSSL as the basis for a system converting legal forms in sgml

into RTF. These are the main selling points of our 'forms' cds, which sell
for thousands of dollars. We process about one gig of data every month, and 
this system has been extremely stable. The one bug which I found in Jade
itself
was fixed promptly - I think it took Sri Clark less than a day to get back
to me with the patch.

Our (600k) dtd is pretty specialized, so we had to roll our own style sheet;

it took me about two months of not-very-hard work (on my own, I might
mention)
to get things to a production-ready point, and I had never used DSSSL
before. 
I give it my hearty endorsement. 

James Wilson


 DSSSList info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist