shapj@us.ibm.com wrote:
> I think that XML should be preferred to SGML. Since all valid XML documents
> are valid SGML documents, we can move up later, but the publicly available
> tool chains for XML are compelling. In particular, goal (2) above can be
> easily achieved by building on DocBook-XML/XSLT
>
> My feeling (with great reluctance) is that we should ultimately be planning
> to rely on XSLT rather than on DSSSL. Support for DSSSL is limited, and
> critical mass for tool building appears to be gathering around XSL/XSLT.
> While XSL is not yet stable, I have had considerable success in using XSLT
> to generate both LaTeX and HTML, and support for XSL formatting objects is
> coming right along. Meanwhile, the principal DSSSL websites appear to
> consist primarily of broken links -- most notably I can't download the
> final standard! Work on the sgml-tools package has been suspended, so it
> may be that the right thing to do is stick with the Jade toolchain until
> something better comes along.
>
> The DocBook DTD has some considerable merits:
>
> 1. It is carefully designed.
> 2. It is fairly well documented.
> 3. A lot of people already know it.
>
> I would appreciate opinions, if any.
100% with you on XML/XSL(T). Cocoon may interest you, btw (see the Java and XML Apache stuff). I totally agree that there's a good deal of focus on XSL/XSLT, too. SGML is not even worth thinking about, IMO.
Cheers,
Ben.
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