[Fink-devel] SGML/XML packages.

[Sasha Z. <sz...@ma...>]

Hello fink developers,

I have had great success setting up a publishing system using openjade, docbook xml 4.1.2, and norman walsh's docbook stylesheets. I think this would make a great addition to fink, and it would allow fink developers to write and publish documentation for fink. So, I am volunteering to set up the packages for the following:

docbook-241		- DocBook 2.4.1 DTDs
docbook-300		- DocBook 3.0.0 DTDs
docbook-310		- Docbook 3.1.0 DTDs
docbook-400		- DocBook 4.0.0 DTDs
docbook-410		- DocBook 4.1.0 DTDs
docbook-xml		- DocBook XML 4.1.2 DTDs
dsssl-docbook-modular   - Norman Walsh's dsssl stylesheets for DocBook
html			- HTML DTDs
iso8879			- ISO 8879 entity sets for SGML
jadetex			- combines openjade and tex to generate ps and pdf
linuxdoc                - Linuxdoc DTDs
mkcatalog		- tool that edits sgml catalog files
sgmltools-lite		- python frontend to openjade
xhtml			- XHTML DTDs

Once a number of these packages work, I can make a task-sgml (like Debian's: http://packages.debian.org/stable/text/task-sgml.html) medtapackage that installs all the stuff needed to do ork in sgml. task-sgml-dev (http://packages.debian.org/stable/text/task-sgml-dev.html) would be the next step. But, this is good for a start. 

These package names are taken from the BSD ports collection - should I be using package names from the Debian package collection?

Almost all of these packages will be matter of copying files to different locations (under %p/share/sgml ), not a whole lot of compiling. In fact, the only package that requires compiling of any sort is jadetex (which requires both openjade and tetex). I haven't gotten sgmltools to work yet, but it's just a python frontend to openjade. 

Let me know if you have any suggestions or if anyone else is already working on this stuff.

thanks,

s

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Sasha Zucker
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