[Refdb-devel] Table support in current DocBook XSL stylesheets [was: Latin-1 character 160 (nbsp) in manpages]

[Michael(tm) S. <sm...@xm...>]

Markus Hoenicka <mar...@mh...>, 2006-08-18 22:20 +0200:

> For the time being I've changed the driver file which RefDB uses to
> process the man pages.

That driver file should no longer be needed except for backward
compatibility with older versions of the DocBook XSL stylesheets.
The current version, 1.70.1, fully supports real table output
using tbl(1) markup. See the attached example (refdbib.1).

I've also attached a patch to the driver file. The patch causes
the driver to check the value of the DocBook XSL stylesheets
$VERSION param. If the middle part is 70 or greater, it uses the
table-processing code in the stylesheets as-is; otherwise, it
falls back to outputting the table rows in paragraphs.

  --Mike