Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Linux documentation

[AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)]

drobbins@gentoo.org wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 07:03:51PM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
> 
> > It's true docbook transformation need much time with these xsl's. But
> > since we do not use dynamic XML generation time should not be the
> > problem.
> 
> I think that a docbook-lite format could work.  My concern with docbook
> wasn't as much the additional processing power needed, but the additional
> hours and hours that may be needed to write our own XSLT to conver docbook
> to our desired HTML format.  When designing the XSLT, it would seem that
> having only the XML tags we need (and no more) would be an advantage.
> 
If you take a look at the html output, you will see that all tags have a
name or class element. 
So using a local stylesheet should be ok for the beginning.

BTW: There is a new package app-text/docbook2X which can be used to
convert docbook to man and info
pages. It uses alot of perl XML modules and internaly uses XML::DOM and
not XML::Sablotron or XML::LibXSLT

Maybe we can extend this package to amke use of the newer parsers and
add html and fo output (maybe pdf too)
to it.
Then we would have a nice frontend docs.

achim~

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