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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: DocBook XML & XSL: work in progess, new dependencies
From:       Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano () tiscali ! it>
Date:       2010-05-01 19:30:32
Message-ID: 4BDC8158.3070705 () tiscali ! it
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Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Saturday 01 May 2010, Luigi Toscano wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm currently working (with Albert) to remove the embedded copies of
> > DocBook XML and XSL (http://www.docbook.org/) from kdelibs/kdoctools. \
> > This change (if accepted) will introduce two new dependencies (see \
> > below). I plan to complete this task before SC 4.5 will be released, \
> > but I won't be able to commit all the changes before the dependency \
> > freeze.
> ...
> > Any comments/remarks?
> 
> Only "Halbwissen" (half knowledge ?) here:
> 
> back in the early KDE 2 days getting that SGML and docbook stuff working \
> was a major PITA, nothing worked, stuff had to be patched, etc. Then \
> something was changed, and suddenly it just worked.
> I suspect that this change may have been to include these embedded copies \
> in kdelibs.
But in the meantime DocBook XML & related XSLT have stabilized, while they 
were under heavy development eight years ago (when XML and XSLT were the \
Big  New Technology :)
I can (almost) guarantee that step 1) will be transparent. Step 2 is a bit 
tricky, but the plan is to make sure that it will work as expected.


> With this change, will we stay at the "it just works" level ?
> 
> Is this the package I need for slackware ?
> http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/slackware/slackware-13.0/slackware/ap/linuxdoc-tools-0.9.56-i486-5.txt
>  http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/slackware/slackware-13.0/slackware/ap/linuxdoc-tools-0.9.56-i486-5.txz
> 
Thanks, I failed to find Slackware packages. Unfortunately, the XSLT in the \
 package are ok, but I see only XML DTDs V4.5: we still use V4.2.

Regards
-- 
Luigi


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