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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: perl/docbook2-converter
Use an XSLT library and call it from perl to transform XML Docbook sources using the XSL style sheets. Or go all the way and use Ax-Kit (http://www.axkit.org/) to directly serve XML via Apache. Dave At 00:46 1/05/2002 +0000, Matt G. wrote: >>From: Thomas Porschberg <thomas.porschberg@osp-dd.de> >>To: docbook-apps-digest@lists.oasis-open.org >>Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: perl/docbook2-converter >>Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:24:11 +0200 >> >>At the moment I convert my docbook-apps with >>jade or xsltproc. Is there a way with perl too? > >You might consider that there are good reasons why DSSSL and XSL were >created for the task of transforming and formatting SGML and XML documents. >That said, I'm not aware of a full implementation of DSSSL (i.e. one that >includes the transformations portion), since XSLT basically supercedes it. >XSLT packs a surprising amount of text processing power, given the small >number of constructs it provides, but that's really not what it was >designed for. So, there might be some good reasons to preprocess or query >XML DocBook documents with other tools or languages, such as Perl, but you >consider whether it's really the best tool for the job.
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