Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 00:09:01 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FDP Future And XSL Message-ID: <20030103000901.509e0f58.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030102095009.GA33071@clan.nothing-going-on.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0212192118560.61561-100000@wonkity.com> <20030102095009.GA33071@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:50:09 +0000 Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 09:36:19PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > > Based on some of my web searching, it looks like XSL will be a much > > bigger player in the future than DSSSL. Certainly it seems to be > > much more active right now. Are the current DSSSL style sheets > > going to be around a long time, or is XSL in the works? (Is it > > worth my time to get the new XSL-FO book from OReilly if I want to > > stay compatible with FDP?) > > Last time I looked (which, granted, was over 6 months ago), the main > problem was the lack of decent FOP -> PS / PDF processors. The main > contender was PassiveTeX (which is in the ports tree, > print/passivetex), but it didn't do that good a job. It was also 2 to > 3 times slower than JadeTeX. > > Things may have changed since then, but I haven't had the chance to go > back and look at it in detail. > > However, some of the early work in this area has been committed. > doc/share/xsl/ contains some simple skeleton XSL driver files, and > doc.docbook.mk supports a STYLESHEET_TYPE variable, so you can do > > make FORMATS=html STYLESHEET_TYPE=xsl This did not work for me. However, once I added the files you specified it worked. Therefor I committed them to the repo so that anyone who wants to play with this will have a `stepping stone' to work with. I played with it a little bit. -- Tom Rhodes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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