> > One area I would be interested in seeing some thoughts from you Dave is
> > on how to structure the XML toolchain and build.  Doug has a recommended
> > XSLT engine and a Makefile in the sandbox, but these things are a bit
> > outside the boost norm.  The other day I got motivated to start trying out
> > Doug's stuff, but I got bogged down in the usual Open Source
> > issue of successfully downloading and installing Doug's recommended
> > toolset (still haven't got it working).
> 
> Which platform? What kind of problems are you running into?

Mandrake Linux 9.  Finding a compatible download.  Compile and
dependency issues.  As I said, the usual stuff...
 
> > So I was thinking about
> > moving over to the Apache toolset (which I am more used to) instead
> > just too get going.  But then I have to modify the makefiles etc...
> 
> I've run across more than a few comments that Xalan has a few bugs
> that the DocBook XSL stylesheets trigger.

Entirely possible.  

> > In the long run I would imagine we would want to treat XSLT engines
> > just like C++ compilers -- have Jam configurations and Jam targets
> > etc. and possibly even a list of tools that have been tried.  I'm
> > assuming we will be able to do this without modifing bjam, but
> > given that my knowledge of the innerworkings of Jam is minimal
> > I'm not certain what all is involved...
> >
> > Jeff
> 
> If you're already running into problems with the Makefiles (and, of
> course, they won't work on Win32), perhaps a Jam-based solution should be

Well, they would probably work under cygwin where I already have
an operational version of Xalan.  I might give that a whirl over the
weekend.

Jeff


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