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Re: Re: DocBook 4.0 - SGML or XML?

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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Re: DocBook 4.0 - SGML or XML?
From: eichin at thok dot org (Mark W. Eichin)
Date: 02 Jun 2000 10:42:32 -0400
References: <"Eve L. Maler"'s message of "Thu, 01 Jun 2000 09:34:43 -0400"> <Bob Stayton's message of "Sun, 28 May 2000 1:40:07 PDT"> <10005280140.aa23455@mammoth.sco.com> <4.3.1.2.20000601093212.00c4dae0@abnaki.East.Sun.Com> <4.3.1.2.20000601140237.00ac7870@abnaki.East.Sun.Com>
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> Sure, but there are tons of commercial implementations, and implementations 
> in C++ etc., and automatic support is built into a lot of commercial 

It would be nice if such were listed on the oasis/Cover pages, they
give the impression that the only XSL tools that worked at all are in
java, the two or maybe three projects in non-java (C++, perl, python?
from memory) were early alpha-stage projects, and described up front
as incomplete (and free, so I'm not complaining :-)  The one exception
is some microsoft-only tools which were not favorably reviewed.

Raw XML handling is more commonly available, and to be fair that was
the original question -- but if anyone has a commercial-grade non-java
XSL engine out there, by all means let me know.  (Of course I'd prefer
a freely-modifiable system, easier to integrate, but in this
particular instance a cooperative vendor would suffice :-)

			_Mark_ <eichin@thok.org>
			The Herd Of Kittens

References:
- Re: Re: DocBook 4.0 - SGML or XML?
  - From: Eve L. Maler
- Re: DocBook 4.0 - SGML or XML?
  - From: Eve L. Maler

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