Re: [xmlroff] DocBook FO stylesheet for xmlroff?

[Tim W. <tw...@re...>]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:51:40AM -0500, Stefan Seefeld wrote:

> I'm not sure that this is an easy task.
> However, I agree that docbook-to-pdf processing provides a nice
> (and wildly popular) use case. In this light, would it be possible
> to set up a benchmark, i.e. turning the test suite into a progress
> meter so people can see how xmlroff gets closer to that goal ?

I think that once it is possible to process DocBook documents at all
using xmlroff, it will become apparent quite quickly which bits are
missing.  Hopefully this will speed up the rate at which developers
discover and contribute to xmlroff. :-)

There is an interesting file shipped with xmlroff:

/usr/share/xml/libfo-0.3.1/libfo-compat.xsl

Unfortunately, I tried applying that stylesheet to a
docbook-xsl-generated XSL-FO file but didn't notice much difference in
the warnings and errors generated.

The particular sorts of DocBook documents I'm interested in getting
xmlroff going with are the Fedora Core documentation manuals. (These
actually contain a subset of DocBook tags, not the full set.)

Tim.
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