Re: HELP PLEASE!!!!!

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:39:57AM +0200, eschmid+sic@s.netic.de wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 01:19:22AM +0300, Alexander Bokovoy wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 10:30:57PM +0100, James Moore wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Which manual? Writing docs should be almost fun. I can help with > > > > DocBook, > > > > but don't expect that I'm contributing to the content. > > > > Ive got all of docbook stuff done and the actual structure set up (builds > > > etc using saxon and xsl (mostly gleemed from phpdoc ;))) umm if I get stuck > > > Im sure ill be running for help, the docs are currently all in php-gtk/docs > > > Is it possible to build documentation via sgmltools instead of saxon? Just wondering. > > Oh no. We started the PHP documentation sometime in 1997. We used the > sgmltools first, but this wasn't very well developed. So the other choice > with DocBook and DSSSL was the best choice. The tools have been selected > by Stig SФther Bakken. > > I have seen, besides the PHP manual, more and more books, and more > publishers are switching to DocBook. But there is now the distiction > between DSSSL and XSL. I personally prefer DSSSL, because XSL[T] is > something for HTML programmers. I understand. But what I am talking about is that SGMLTools Lite (2nd version of SGMLTools rewritten in Python) understands DSSSL. I've thought that it is possible to use it for documentation compilation but as James said, Saxon is the only tested way to actually build it. -- Sincerely yours, Alexander Bokovoy The Midgard Project | ALT Linux Team | Minsk Linux Users Group www.midgard-project.org | www.altlinux.ru | www.minsk-lug.net -- It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.