Re: [OpenJade-users] What is the difference between docbook/jade and XSL/Apache fop ??

[Saqib A. <sa...@se...>]

Xavier,

DocBook is a Document Type Definition for Technical documentation.
OpenJade is a processor
XSL is XML Style Language
Apache FOP is Formatting Objects Processor

The above mentioned technologies are all different, so you can not compare
them.

However for use in documentation generation technology stack, you can
compare OpenJade and Apache Cocoon (http://cocoon.apache.org)

Apache Cocoon is a Document publishing framework, simply it can apply XSLT
to XML document and produce the output on the fly. Whereas OpenJade and
XSLTPROC are offline processors.

If you want to see Cocoon in action visit
http://www.xml-dev.com/blog/xml2html.php  . You can enter a URL to DocBook
XML document o the web page, and it will produce the HTML/PDF using
Cocoon.

In Peace,
Saqib Ali
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On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Xavier RAYNAUD wrote:

> Hi !
>
> I want to use documentation generation technologies, but I'm new to this domain.
> Both bocbook/Jade and XSL/ApacheFOP seems interresting.
> Both have XML input, both can generate HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF...
>
> What is the difference between these two approach ? Are they equivalent ?
>
> Many thanks
> 	Xavier Raynaud
>
>
>
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