RE: ISUG and DSSSL (was: RE: Announcement)

["Mason, James David (MXM) " <MXM@xxxxxxxx>]

Ralph:

You're right about a bunch of old stuff on the SC34 site, left over from
about 1994--95 when we were trying to use our own DTD for documents and
almost everyone in what was then SC18/WG8 carried a copy of Panorama. I
hadn't even been maintaining that legacy-data part of the site, but if
someone wants to offer some tools to make it usable again, I'd be glad to
put in the references.

But what I'm most interested in doing right now is providing some sort of
service to the DSSSL community, if they want to take advantages of ISUG.

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ralph Ferris [SMTP:ralph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Thursday, June 10, 1999 3:56 PM
> To:	dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc:	s.miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	ISUG and DSSSL (was: RE: Announcement)
> 
> James D. Mason wrote:
> 
> >Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 10:29:13 -0400 
> >From: "Mason, James David (MXM) " <MXM@xxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: RE: Announcement
> 
> >I've just been asking the same question of a few people. Now I'll ask it
> of
> >the whole mailing list.
> 
> >I've just become the president of ISUG, the International SGML/XML Users'
> >Group (http://www.isgmlug.org/). We've been around since 1984 and have
> many
> >chapters, particularly in Europe. We do provide courtesy space to the
> HyTime
> >Users' Group, and I'm wondering whether we can be of some service to the
> >world of DSSSL.
> 
> >I'm open to comments
> 
> 
> Hello James,
> 
> What we need to start developing are Web sites with native SGML and XML
> files, DTDs, and style sheets, with appropriate references set up through
> catalog files. By "appropriate references" I mean at a minimum that the
> DTDs required to process a DSSSL style sheet must be referenced. If the
> files are XML files, the xml.dcl must also be referenced appropriately. In
> the case of HyBrick, I've recently added a file to the distribution called
> HyBrickSetUp\usingHyBrick.xml that explains the file organization
> requirements. I believe these same requirements apply (or will apply) to
> Didier Martin's SGML/XML kit, which is also based on SP and Jade.
> 
> Another point. The SC34 Documents site says "To use these documents, you
> will need an SGML-based WWW browser, such as SoftQuad's Panorama."
> Panorama
> of course no longer belongs to SoftQuad, and my understanding is that a
> free viewer is no longer available. On the other hand, I've just been
> referred to a Perl script Panorama->DSSSL converter, on the Oasis Web
> site:
> 
> http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/panodssl-pl.txt
> 
> Stephen Miller at the University of Glasgow, who brought it to my
> attention, wrote me:
> 
> >It does need 
> >
> ><!doctype style-sheet PUBLIC "-//James Clark//DTD DSSSL Style Sheet//EN">
> >
> >to be added to the top of the resultant file, but it does give a strange
> >effect: I converted a file just now and I have a very curious ragged left
> >display which eliminates a lot of the text...
> 
> Maybe there's a Perl hacker on this list who can look into the problem.
> Then the base of Panorama style sheets could be converted to DSSSL.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Ralph E. Ferris
> HyBrick Program Manager
> Fujitsu Software Corporation
> HyBrick: http://www.fsc.fujitsu.com/hybrick/
> 
> 
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