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Re: Open Source SGML vs XML.


On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:42:05PM -0600, Kevin Conder wrote:
> 	What about the DSSSL style-sheets that I've spent time customizing?
> Do I have to start all over? Is there an Open Source XML tool-chain
> that matches the speed and stability of the default Debian SGML  
> tool-chain? From the daily bug reports on this list, I gather that there
> is not.
> 
> 	What are the Open Source programs one would use to process the
> XML/DocBook documents? What licenses do they use? Do they match the Debian
> Free Guidelines? (Also, I'm curious which ones don't use Java.)

You use Jade/OpenJade using those very same DSSSL stylesheets. Or, in
addition, you can now also use numerous XSLT and XSL processors.

For jade, you change

    jade [lots of options here] mydoc.sgml
to
    jade [lots of options here] /usr/share/sgml/declaration/xml.dcl mydoc.xml

Saxon is a good XSLT processor, although it uses Java and as far as I
know does not (yet?) work using Kaffe. Sablotron is one in C++ and
libxslt is written in C.

Then if you want to switch to XSL-FO you can use Apache's FOP (Java) or
passivetex (TeX).

All mentioned software is Free / Open Source. There are commercial
products as well of course. Google will happily provide links.

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