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Re: Docbook/XML, done with Java
- From: Eric Richardson <eric dot richardson at milagrosoft dot com>
- To: Matt Reynolds <mreynolds at pdxinc dot com>
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:16:00 -0700
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java
- Organization: MilagroSoft Inc.
- References: <1018464006.8616.25.camel@mreynolds>
Hi,
I've got this distribution called jdocbook which is an integration of
ant, java, stylesheets, catalog support etc. I've been pretty reluctant
to release it since I didn't really want to support it but if you are
interested I could do a limited release to a few people and then see if
I want to go further. Certainly, if you like it you can use it free as
in Free Software.
There are a few things that need to be enhanced even for my own use but
been pretty lazy.
Eric
Matt Reynolds wrote:
> My apologies if this is the wrong list. I'm new here.
>
> Here at work, we've decided to use DocBook for our internal
> documentation. It appears to do everything we need, and we've started
> creating many documents already.
>
> However, as we have varied levels of expertise, and various platforms to
> support, I've been trying to produce a "program" to process documents
> with DocBook through Java (I'm also a developer, and so if I need to
> build any wrappers or tools, I'd prefer to do it in my "comfort zone").
>
> As far as I can tell, since we're using DocBook XSL, I should be able to
> simply use the appropriate stylesheets and process them against the XML
> documents we have. (Is this correct?)
>
> So far, I've tried using Ant 1.4.1 with Xerces/Xalan (whatever the
> latest ver is off of xml.apache.org) and the DocBook-XSL (from
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.50.1-EXP.tar.gz
> ). Currently, I'm getting "strange" errors processing documents with
> Xalan (which I'll be taking up with those folks shortly, the output is
> cryptic and terse, which doesn't help me much).
>
> Regardless, I'm curious to know if anyone else out there is using an all
> Java setup? Do you have any suggestions for me to try? My goal is to
> process our DocBook XML with an automatable Java tool.
>
> Also, just because I'm new to DocBook in general, how many of you are
> using DocBook XML? I've been having difficulty using the SGML tools
> packaged with Debian when processing DocBook XML. How popular is the
> XML side of DocBook? What tools do you use? Reference material?
>
> I just want an automated process, dang it :)
>
> Anyway, any and all help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt Reynolds
>
>
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