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Making the jump to XML
- To: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Making the jump to XML
- From: Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym at canada dot com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 17:04:47 -0400
- Organization: T(c)Inc Business Innovation through Open Source Computing
- Reply-to: Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym at canada dot com>
It seems my fears were well founding: Now that my publisher (Pearson)
has seen the light and wholeheartedly endorses our use of DocBook
for end-to-end publishing, it seems their tools will be XML while
ours (kernelbook) are SGML. Looks like it is finally time to convert.
Now I have a problem: All the refs say the transition is easy except
for CDATA sections, but no one says what to use as an alternative to
the CDATA. Since our book has a lot of programlistings, we need a
better solution than escaping invalid sections by hand.
So ... how do I break my CDATA habit? Methadrine? Apomorphine?
Chewing gum?
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Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@teledyn.com> TeleDynamics Communications Inc
Business Innovations Through Open Source Systems: http://www.teledyn.com
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."(Pablo Picasso)