On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 06:02:44PM +0200, Daniel Egger wrote: > > gimp-help is written in DocBook/SGML It should be DockBook/XML :) > which is converted to HTML to be > suitable for online-browsing and the help-browser plugin for GIMP. There > are HTML and PS/PDF DSSSL stylesheets which can be used to produce > either the HTML or some (buttugly) PS/PDF file; also we have an > experimental DocBook->LaTeX converter written in python by me which > tends to produce much better PDF output. Yes, I have seen it, but I think that it is better XSLT instead of python, because XSLT is more easy and it was designed for this kind of jobs :-). However, XSLT could be insufficient if the LaTeX generated is very complex. The loops and conditionals in XSLT are very basics, and variables and parameters are limited. > > The DocBook source is written such that the conversion to XML is merely > changing the DTD to an XML one; in short: it is already supposed to be > valid XML. It just hadn't been done so far because the tools were not > mature and fast enough last time I looked but if they were now.... > > So what we need is: > - A featurerich (and possibly FAST!) XSLT processor I love sablotron. It is fast and very easy to use. Also, it has almost every feature of the XSLT standar. > - XSLT files and CSS stylesheets to produce XHTML which looks nice in > nowadays webbrowsers When you "XSLT files" you must say "XSLT file". Unlike DocBook, with XSLT we only will be able to produce one file, instead of one by <sect1>. Anyway, it will be easy :) Well. If you want, look my work in http://gimp.es.gnome.org (spanish). The tutorials (http://gimp.es.gnome.org/manuales.php) are written in a new XML vocabulary. For instance, the XML file http://www.es.gnome.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/web-xml/gimp.es.gnome.org/manuales/ilustracion/index.xml?rev=1.3&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=GNOME will generate http://gimp.es.gnome.org/manuales/ilustracion/ using the XSLT http://www.es.gnome.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/web-xml/gimp.es.gnome.org/gimp.xsl?rev=1.36&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=GNOME > - XSLT files which produce output which is grokkable by the (new?) > helpbrowser plugin; That means we either need simple HTML files for > something like the current plugin or some other (new?) simple > fileformat which allows for additional features which also need to be > defined. This has to be discussed with the person(s) who will code > that (and that certainly won't be me). So we need two XSLT files > > This need a lot of planning and someone with your experience can > possibly bring in some thoughts which would be really appreciated. > Of course :). If I'm useful for GIMP I will work here. What do you need? -- Ayose Cazorla León Debian GNU/Linux - setepo
