Re: the DTD (was Re: switching to Docbook 4.1 XML)

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 10:47:23AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 08:17:31AM -0600, John Fleck wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 03:55:54AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 05:44:54PM -0600, John Fleck wrote:
> > > > Right, and of course we should all use xml catalogs. But until we reach
> > > > that brave new world, --catalogs will read our stodgy old sgml and help us
> > > > make the smooth transition to the xml catalog world.
> > > 
> > >   Okay. Now to get back to the original point. Can someone else reproduce
> > > that 4 second formating time when accessing only local resources. And if
> > > yes is that normal (i.e. depending on the size of the document, number of
> > > files, etc...) or is there some work still needed from me to make it usable ?
> > > 
> > 
> > This all suggests something I hadn't thought of. For reasonable
> > performance for gnome-db2html3, we will need to ensure that the DTD is
> > installed on users' machines. Has someone already thought this
> > through? How do we go about this?
> 
>   Make sure people install the Dtd locally. Can be done as a requirement
> from the packaging system, or a check easilly made at runtime.
> 

Right, but do we make a the DocBook DTD package a requirement, or do
we install it ourselves?

Cheers,
-- 
John Fleck
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