ISUG and DSSSL (was: RE: Announcement)

[Ralph Ferris <ralph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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