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Re: About DB2LaTeX
- From: Andrzej Swedrzynski <kokosz at earthdawn dot pl>
- To: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Cc: Michael Smith <smith at xml-doc dot org>, Ramon Casellas <casellas at infres dot enst dot fr>
- Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 15:55:36 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: About DB2LaTeX
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Michael Smith wrote:
> Ramon Casellas <casellas@infres.enst.fr> writes:
[snip]
> > - Should I add extension modules in order to make DB2LaTeX to make it
> > perform better and faster?
>
> FWIW, I'd vote for keeping the "XSL only" approach. I think there's a
> big value in it -- in enabling people to get transformations done with
> just a minimal system (just the stylesheets and an XSLT engine) that
> will work on any platform and is free from other dependencies.
I agree, but I would like to ask one question about XSLT
stylesheets. How to translate docbook's & to LaTeX's \& using
XSLT only?
[snip]
> > - Should I focus in providing support for the 1 or 2 "most widely used"
> > XSLT processors in benefit of the number of features supported? [...]
>
> You might want to aim just for xsltproc and Saxon. If you can judge by
> postings to docbook-apps, xsltproc and Saxon are the engines most
> DocBook users are using; other than those and Xalan, XT, and 4XSLT, I
> can't think offhand of mention of any other engines showing up much on
> docbook-apps.
I would like to see all the stylesheets working with Sablotron
(http://www.gingerall.com). It is very, very fast and the PHP
XSLT functions are based on this engine.
Regards,
Andrzej
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