[olug] DocBook

[Dave Burchell]

William E. Kempf says:

> > 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?

No, db2html uses DSSSL (usually pronounced "diesel"), an older
stylesheet language.  db2html calls on jade by James Clark to process
the DSSSL stylesheets.  Those DSSSL stylesheets were also written by
Norm Walsh, but they are not the same as Norm's XSLT stylesheets.

If SGML, DSSSL, and Jade work for you, that's cool.  But many in the markup
community (such as Norm Walsh) have indicated that XML is the future and
expect SGML to be phased out.  I'd choose XML DocBook over SGML DocBook,
all other things being equal.

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