Re: Re: [docbook-apps] ANNOUNCE: docbook2X 0.8.2: convert to man pages and Texinfo

Hi Steve,

You wrote:

> On June 26, 2003 11:14 pm, you wrote:
> >
> > That's a very worthy goal. I think docbook2X would be much more widely
> > used if people could just get it installed.
> 
> You are right of course. What I find most frustrating is that people who 
> encounter problems do not tell me about them.  (... Sorry, have to let off 
> some steam)
> 
> > Well, if getting rid of the Perl dependencies altogether isn't an option
> > anywhere on the horizon, it would be nice to see docbook2X at least
> 
> It can be done, if you insist :)
> In 15 minutes I made a XSL-based hack that substitutes for db2x_manxml 
> (see attachment). It generates recognizable man pages. (But not suprisingly, 
> whitespace normalizing and character escaping are broken.)

Wow -- this is worth pursing, I think. If it were possible to get the
Perl dependencies eleminated, there would be zero install issues, right?

Are whitespace normalizing and character escaping the only things that
break in the XSLT-only approach?

  --Mike

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