From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jan 2 21: 8:39 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE71B37B401; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 21:08:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from pittgoth.com (14.zlnp1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.149.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEE2243EA9; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 21:08:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Received: from moble.pittgoth.com ([192.168.0.5]) by pittgoth.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h0358bNN023807; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 00:08:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from trhodes@FreeBSD.org) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 00:09:01 -0500 From: Tom Rhodes To: Nik Clayton 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: <20030102095009.GA33071@clan.nothing-going-on.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:50:09 +0000 Nik Clayton 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