docbook and revision control was Re: Gnome users manual (was: Ubuntu book)

[John Hornbeck]

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 19:18 +0100, sparkes wrote:
> John Hornbeck wrote:
> 
> >>
> > 
> > Docbook is not standard xml.  It has it's own tags and the likes.  I am
> > not sure how docutils does it, but I am going to be testing it in a few
> > minutes.  I will let everyone know my results.  If it works I will do a
> > wiki page for setting it up.
> > 
> 
> there are no standard XML tags.  The X stands for eXtensible.  You 
> extend it by creating the rules for the tags your document requires.  I 
> could go into details about all the silly things you have to do to 
> create conformant and compliant docs, but it's all incrediblly off topic 
> and only really interesting to geeks like me ;-)
> 
Yeah I know there is no standard xml tags :-) I am working on these
docutils but they are odd.  Also count me in that geek group.

> it's possible to change the old sgml docbook to xml docbook and it's 
> possible to use sgml2x to transform either one to almost anything but 
> nobody has written a ReST style sheet and I know almost zero DSSSL.
> 
> I was tempted to start playing with XSLT to do it but it's a pain in the 
> arse to translate to or from non-XML formats so I wimped it and decided 
> to use docbook after all ;-)
> 
I have been wanting to learn XSLT for awhile, but never commited to it.


John Hornbeck
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