From DoubleC@acc.co.nz Thu Mar 29 13:31:05 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: DoubleC@acc.co.nz X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 29 Mar 2001 21:31:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 39714 invoked from network); 29 Mar 2001 21:30:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 29 Mar 2001 21:30:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO webgw099.acc.org.nz) (203.167.220.2) by mta1 with SMTP; 29 Mar 2001 21:30:41 -0000 Received: from mh_acc099 (not verified[10.99.5.50]) by webgw099.acc.org.nz with MailMarshal (4,0,9,0) id ; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:32:46 +1200 Received: from ACC_DOM-Message_Server by mh_acc099 with Novell_GroupWise; Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:28:04 +1200 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 5.5.4 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 09:27:53 +1200 To: Subject: Re: [lojban] Document Management Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline From: "Chris Double" > >When creating documents myself for distribution in different formats I > >use custom XML tags. Basically I build a DTD as I go along using > >elements that describe the information being stored. I then use XSLT > >stylesheets to transform this to HTML, Docbook, XSL-FO, or whatever. > >sounds very appealing, what exactly do you have to do to be able to >convert to all those formats? I create an XSLT stylesheet to transform the XML document into whatever is = required for my output format - usually another document like Docbook or H= TML. XSLT is a declarative language that allows you to define how to manipulate = the XML tags in your original document and how they should appear in the th= e resulting document. You use an XSLT processor to do the work. For example= , I use saxon: saxon -o result.html input.xml input2html.xsl The stylesheets only need to be written once for each output type and can b= e re-used on all input documents conforming to the same XML structure. See articles on www.xml.com or www.xmlhack.com for more details and example= s. Chris. --=20 http://www.double.co.nz/lojban