Re: About the docs

Adriaan de Groot wrote:

> On Wednesday 30 July 2003 21:44, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > I don't know the essential difference between SGML docbook and XML
> > docbook.  Can both be converted to nice HTML and PDF?  Are both
> 
> There is no essential difference. The DTDs are the same. Both can be
> converted to nice HTML (I know you don't use KDE, but you should take
> a look at its help:/ docs sometime - XML docbook, converted to HTML
> and with a fancy stylesheet applied to it, on the fly). The biggest
> change is that in XML, you need to watch you closing tags better.
> FWIW, I've already converted all the docs to XML for home use, and use
> 
> 	xsltproc /usr/local/kde-3.1/share/apps/ksgmltools2/docbook/xsl/html/chunk.xsl 
> exec.sgml
> 
> to use the KDE stylesheets to divide the docbook into one html file per 
> chapter; it looks pretty much exactly like your HTML files.

That sounds simpler than what I use now.  Perhaps also faster?

I don't like the idea of having to install KDE 3.1 just for this.  Is
the file available separately?  And does it work when just obtaining
that chunk.xsl file or are other files included from it?

By the way, how did you convert the documentation from SGML to XML?

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