Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

[carlos at cvc dot edu (Carlos)]

If your system supports it I would very much recommend XSLTproc as the XSLT
processor to use. After Using Xalan, Saxon, XT and XSLTproc I've found out
that XSLTproc is a lot faster (maybe because it is written in C) easier to
use and has a quick turnaround on feature requests and bug fixes.

On the down side (for beginners) it requires manual installation on unix
although you can download the RPMs and other binaries from different sites.

That is my experience and your milleage may vary.

Carlos

On 04/10/02 13:24, "Daniel Veillard" <veillard@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 03:10:31PM -0500, Matt Reynolds wrote:
>> On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 14:14, Carlos wrote:
>>> Matt:
>>> 
>>> I've used ant with XSLTproc, Xalan and (latest and greatest) with Saxon. The
>>> build.xml file is listed below. Apologies to the list, wasn't sure if I
>>> should send this to the list or privately.
>>> 
>>> Carlos
>> 
>> <snip>
>> 
>> What is XSLTproc?  That's vaguely familiar...
>> 
>> Sending private (or even better, a link to a web page) works just as
>> well.  But this is OK with me :)
> 
> Hehe don't worry I will make a bit of advertizing:
>   http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/
> 
> Check the DocBook specific page if you want to set-up catalogs, there
> are precompiled binaries for Linux, solaris and Windows. And if you manage to
> have it consume 500MB of memory it means you're probably processing a
> dozen set of books simultaneously (last time I checked the DocBook Duck Book
> required 60+MBytes of memory when converted to HTML).
> 
> Oh, sorry it's not Java but raw, sharpen, C code ...
> 
> Daniel

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