From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 16 12:27:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07E8116A47B for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:27:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80FE343D45 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:27:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9AD95F0D; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:27:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id AL9c5QOqQotz; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:27:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.251] (pool-68-160-201-170.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.201.170]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B7E5CF5; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:27:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4492A39E.3070008@mac.com> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:27:10 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Robey References: <448E5692.1070105@chuckr.org> <448EC4A6.50808@scls.lib.wi.us> <4491B189.3020201@chuckr.org> <4491BA82.8070600@scls.lib.wi.us> <4491E525.5080500@chuckr.org> In-Reply-To: <4491E525.5080500@chuckr.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Greg Barniskis , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: formatting tools for Docbook X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:27:15 -0000 Chuck Robey wrote: [ ... ] > You know, I don't want to argue about thread hijacking, I only want my > question answered, so i will try again. Has anyone out there used a > tool from the ports set, to be able to do general purpose creation and > formatting of XML Docbook documents? Yes. It's usually easier to start with the Docbook templates provided by FreeBSD for, say, an article, but it's entirely possible to go your own way, and write new documents in pure XML rather than SGML, for example. Or work with 4.x XML Docbook documents published on the Linux side rather than SGML from the BSD side. > Specifically, this is not intended to reference the FDP tools. It might > be possible that the FDP tools supply a 100% 4.5 Docbook XML > compatiblity, and if those tools occur in the FreeBSD ports (I think > they do) theIN could care about it here, but I don't want o referenc > ethe FDP tools at all, otherwise. I don't have any specific intention > to use the FDP toolset. Well, I've got news for you: the FDP toolset is the toolset one would use for working on both XML and SGML Docbook documents. If you don't want to follow the fine directions in the FDP guidelines, and install jade by hand or use something besides tidy to do HTML cleanup, or you don't want to install a PDF output tool because you aren't generating PDFs as an output format, OK, fine, that's your concern. > Outside of 100% tested compatiblity that you yourself have used in > creating and reading non-FreeBSD documents, I really would appreciate > not hearing about the FDP tools. OK. Well, the FDP worked with: http://www.pkix.net/~chuck/doc/sco-vs-ibm.xml ...which is a Docbook 4.1.2 XML document, for example. -- -Chuck