Re: Move to XML, new converter to HTML etc

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:26:50PM +0100, Laszlo Kovacs wrote:
> > Laszlo, Daniel: how easy is (2)? Would it be possible to produce
> > something working within the next month so that we could start playing
> > with it?
> I think Daniel should reply to this one. I already mentioned that there
> are stylesheets to convert DocBook XML. I dont know how good they are
> and I dont know how much of the job is done right now by libxslt.

  Well I have DocBook XML to HTML processing as part of libxslt regression
tests, and the KDE guys are using it now in their CVS version of their
upcoming 2.2 release, so basically I think:
  - the rough edges have been removed
  - there might be a few bugs left but I can catch them, and other
    people are interested in debugging libxslt if needed

 The things which need specific focus are:
 1/ how do we store the XML Docbook DtD and XSL stylesheet (the bulk
    of it should be shared with the KDE guys IMHO).
 2/ add a catalog support to the XSLT command line or library so
    that formating docs don't go to the network to ftech those.
 3/ customize if needed the default XSLT stylesheets from Norman Walsh
    to give a Gnome look and feel (since XSLt has an import mechanism
    this can still be done while sharing 95% of the default stylesheets)

1/ should be discussed with KDE, and distributors, I wonder if there
   is a provision for this in the filesystem standard, I think there is one
   for SGML, we should imitate it for XML
2/ is relatively simple since libxml has all the APIs needed to do that
   easilly, the main question is how to handle misses from the catalog,
   i.e. should we end-up fetching missing entities from the network,
   an if yes should we try to store it in a user defined place or
   somewhere in /var ?
3/ I dunno what will be needed specifically.

Daniel

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