Subject: FreeBSD and (Open)Jade From: Allan Bowhill <kosmos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 20:43:45 -0700 (PDT) |
Welcome to the list. Chuck really makes his rounds! :) > >From our point of view, the killer missing feature from our current > toolbox is a way to go from DocBook to *roff. A colleague, Chuck > Robey, is currently working on this using XML and XSLT, but I haven't > delved too deeply in to those. This is partly so that we can get > Postscript output without needing TeX installed[1], and partly to see > how feasible it might be to move to DocBook as a manual page format > at some point. I know little about *ROFF and Tex, but that sounds like the right approach. I compile manuals and online help for tax forms in a couple of products for a tax preparation software company. Everything is done using DOS/Windows ports of GNU utilities. (FreeBSD is used at the _home_ office, of course!) Although not the central feature of our SGML system, Jade is used to produce RTF as a jump-point to other desired file formats to deliver to our customers. Choosing an output format that serves as platform for easy processing to other formats is important in making SGML work in the economic sense. It's just as important to have a good short-hop transformation tool like COsT around to do SGML -> HTML (or whatever ML). The COsT extension to TCL, like other premium SGML tools has been somewhat trampled in the XML stampede. Evolutionary changes that make webmasters drool are not always the best bet for institutionalized projects. I'm sure there are enough of these to keep (Open)Jade viable for quite some time. > I've only just subscribed to this list -- I'd heard some disturbing > rumours that folks such as James Clark were saying "DSSSL is dead, > XSL is the future" and wanted to find out for myself what the situation > was. I'll forward James' comments. Given the interest of people in this list, Jade should be renewed by the change. --Allan kosmos@xxxxxxxxx DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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