On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Jim Wise wrote:
> >I haven't used cocoon yet, it sounds like it does all the conversions via
> >interactive requests and on the fly? Do you know of tools to do the named
> >conversions for batch operations, e.g. Makefile based?
> 
> Allegedly Cocoon 2.0 will include such a tool, though I haven't seen it
> yet.  The XML, XSLT, and XSL:FO (XML -> PDF via XSL Formatting
> Objects) used by cocoon are the Apache Xerces, Xalan, and Fop packages,
> all of which are in pkgsrc/textproc.  Somewhere, I've seen a command
> line for these for use with ant (pkgsrc/devel/ant, a java/XML-based make
> replacement) -- I'll try to pkg this this week.

OK. All this java makes me feel a bit unsure, but as long as it runs...
(does it do so, on all NetBSD platforms? I've never tried it.)


> >So far Federico and I have focussed on plain SGML->HTML/PS/PDF, but if
> >there are usable alternatives, it would be nice to know about them.
> >Unfortunately, I'm sort of a newbie to SGML/XML. :>
> >I wonder if there's a good reason to use XML/DocBook over SGML/DocBook?
> 
> I'm not sure if the difference between SGML/Docbook and XML/Docbook is
> as small as the difference between HTML and XHTML -- if it is, it should
> be possible to write documents for use with SGML now, but written so as
> to be also XML compatible.

I think that's the way to go for now.


 - Hubert

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