Im Lost. Please Help.

[Matthew Jensen <mmj@xxxxxxx>]

Im trying to understand this whole SGML, DTD, DSSL thing.

As far as i can tell it works like this:

1. I write a DTD which defines the structure of my documents.
2. I write the sgml document using the tags defined the DTD.
3. I write a DSSSL style-sheet which will be used to format my sgml
document.
4. I [try to] use jade to process the SGML document with the DSSSL
style-sheet.
5. Somehow I get from 3&4 to an output format, eg: HTML/RTF.

I have the docbook DTD and the DTD i wrote includes that, with a few
additions that i wanted to make.

As far as the DSSSL part goes, this is where i am lost.  I was under the
impression that I could write a DSSSL document to format the document
independant of the output format.  So if i have a <mytag> make it blue,
bold and italic.  From this there would be a DSSSL document which would
convert it to either rtf/ps/pdf or html.

What confuses me is that there is two sections in the docbook style sheets,
html and print.  Where do i put my part of the DSSSL spec so that i can set
the format then convert to HTML or RTF?

thanks in advance for the help.

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mmj@xxxxxxx


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