[olug] DocBook

William E. Kempf wekempf at cox.net
Wed Oct 30 23:19:20 UTC 2002


Dave Burchell said:
> William E. Kempf says:
>> The issue is that when the DocBook DTD changes, you'll have to update
>> your XSLT generator to handle the changes.  But if you stick with the
>> standard tools for DocBook, someone else is responsible for this.
>
> Good point.  A change in DocBook could make my XSLT stylesheet
> obsolete.  (So could a change in the output format, such as a new
> version of XHTML.) To avoid this, you could borrow someone else's
> XSLT stylesheets rather than writing your own.  For example, Norm
> Walsh, a DocBook guru, has his own DocBook -> XHTML stylesheets for
> XSLT.  See
> "http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=115351".

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this precisely what db2html is using? 
It's just wrapped the various components in a script, no?

-- 
William E. Kempf





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