[Scrollkeeper-devel] Re: ScrollKeeper

[Eric B. <er...@ca...>]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:07:59AM -0700, Bob Stayton wrote:
> I'm looking forward to working with Scrollkeeper
> and the OMF metadata.  I read over the latest SK design
> document and the project is coming together.
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> As you and Cornelius point out, generating the OMF
> data will be a big task.  Content in Docbook will
> probably be the easiest.  If we want to integrate
> doc available in other mime types, we'll have to look at
> ways of extracting metadata from them as well.  There is a
> lot of doc available only as HTML sans OMF that will still
> need to be integrated.  And I doubt it will be XHTML. 8^)
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> For me, having the merged metadata in XML
> suggests a need to build up the XML tools
> on OpenLinux.  I think OpenLinux needs a good
> XML toolkit that could be used for many purposes.
> If we are going to be a development platform,
> we pretty much need one.  Do you know if
> there are plans being developed for such a toolkit?
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> Eric, I saw your mail about putting together an XSL
> kit for Docbook.  I'd be willing help out with that.
> I like using your jw tool.  I'm currently using it
> to generate HTML for all of these:

This new kit will be rather an big change. The old one
was based on jade and the style sheets were written in
DSSSL; the printed output was generated via TeX (hence
the many problems with Asian fonts, for example).
The new kit will be based on Xalan/Xerces and use XSL
for the style sheets; the printed output will be
generated via FOP. Both kits will benefit (at least
I hope so) from an unified inteface in jw.

> Kathleen's Installation Guide   (Docbook SGML 2.2.1 from Frame files)
> Patrice's SysAdmin Guide        (Docbook SGML 2.2.1 from Frame files)
> Meg's Developer Workstation Guide  (Docbook SGML 3.1, hand coded)
> Mark Forry's Open Messaging Server (Docbook XML 4.1 from XMetal)
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> Can you believe that Frame SGML 6 still uses version
> 2.2.1 as their Docbook app?  That DTD came out in 1995!

I wouldn't be *that* surprised.

> No wonder people don't take Frame's SGML efforts seriously.
> Fortunately, all I have to do is change the public id
> in the files to 3.1 and jw works fine.
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> BTW, I found this rather astonishing line in the LDP
> Author Guide Chapter 4 (thanks to an htdig search for XSL
> on the latest Sybil):
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> $JADE -t sgml -i xml -d /home/ldp/SGML/style/xsl/docbook/html/docbook.x=
sl $DOCUMENT.sgml
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> This sure looks to me like jade is processing an SGML file
> with an xsl stylesheet, but that would be a pretty good
> trick, don't you think?   8^)

Hey, if someone can do that, I'm more than happy ;-).

No, seriously, this must be a bug. Jade is a DSSS=B5=B5L engine, not
an XSL engine.

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