Subject: Re: About the source library From: Glauber Ribeiro <glauber@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:21:32 -0500 |
Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > > Glauber Ribeiro writes: > > address to distribute beta versions of Jade with changes. It would be > > especially nice to have Jade implement the full DSSSL spec, and from > > what people have posted, it seems to be very close now. Maybe someone > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > I am not sure why you think this. Jade does not implement the > transformation language, of course; but more importantly it goes > nowhere for complex page models. I was not aware that anyone was > considering that. in its present state, it severely limits the > usefulness of Jade for serious typesetting. If all you want it for is > (SG|X)ML to HTML transformation, might as well go with the crowd and > use XSLT ("excess, light", as it might be aptly named) Well, reading the recent emails about patches, i had the impression that one of the posters mentioned he had implemented most of the DSSSL spec. I may have read more than what was there. Jade is still the only game in town for SGML+DSSSL as free software, and it is a worthy little program. For my purposes, i'd like to be able to have a system that could take a single source and generate 3 kinds of output: (1) print (RTF if it needs be) (2) hyperlinked PDF (3) html Jade is pretty close in all counts. (2) can be done by combining Jadetex and PDFtex; however, the hyperlinking is still less than what you get with, say, PDFLaTeX. Despite all the hype around SML + XSL (which may well transform the way we write web pages), SGML + DSSSL is still a much more powerful system. I'm not sure about complex page models, being new to DSSSL. Is this something that could be incrementally added to Jade? Glauber -- Glauber Ribeiro --- Integrated Warehousing Solutions (IWS) mailto:glauber@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.iws-irms.com PGP keys available from certserver.pgp.com, pgpkeys.mit.edu DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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