Index: openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/engineering-standards/docbook-primer.xml
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diff -u -r1.9.2.1 -r1.9.2.2
--- openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/engineering-standards/docbook-primer.xml 17 Nov 2003 16:38:09 -0000 1.9.2.1
+++ openacs-4/packages/acs-core-docs/www/xml/engineering-standards/docbook-primer.xml 18 Nov 2003 15:24:31 -0000 1.9.2.2
@@ -35,19 +35,19 @@
we are using Docbook XML instead of Docbook SGML:
-
+ Consistency. We already have a bunch of
.xml files that ArsDigita wrote. Trying to re-write them to
conform to the SGML DTD would be unnecessary work (I tried).
-
-
+
+ It does not require extra
effort. Writing in XML is almost identical to
SGML, with a couple extra rules. More details in the
LDP
Author Guide.
-
+
@@ -118,33 +118,41 @@
+ Docbook XML
DTD - The document type definition for XML. You can
find an RPM or DEB package or you can download a zip file from
the site linked from here.
+
+ XSL
Stylesheets (docbook-xsl) - The stylesheets to convert
to HTML. We have been using a stylesheet based upon
NWalsh's chunk.xsl.
+
+ xsltproc - The processor that
will take an XML document and, given a xsl stylesheet, convert
it to HTML. It needs libxml2 and libxslt (available in RPM and
DEB formats or from xmlsoft.org.
+
+
Some editing tool. A popular one is Emacs with the psgml
mode. We have a intro to the PSGML
Mode in Emacs as part of our documentation. You can
read about other editing tools in the LDP Author Guide.
+
@@ -702,11 +710,13 @@
+
The LDP Author
Guide has a lot of good information, a table of
docbook elements and their "look" in HTML and lots of good links
for tools.
+