Kendall Clark kindly forwarded me this message since I'm not a subscriber to the debian-sgml list.
Re: Quilt Quilt is not being actively maintained right now, partly pending the completion of a rewrite of the underlying XML/SGML modules. It's also possible that newer XML/SGML tools will make Quilt unnecessary. Quilt had one primary feature that is not (yet) common in most XSL, DSSSL, or other style packages: Quilt was centered around the idea of converting ``other'' DTDs to one loosely structured DTD for documents, and then formatting _that_. This could easily be done with XSLT, for example, but no one seems to be taking that approach and building a package around it. If somebody would like to pick up development of Quilt, please feel free to contact me. Current developments in libxml-perl and XML-Grove would make Quilt much simpler. It's available on a public CVS server, password `anonymous': CVSROOT=:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/bitsko/cvsroot Re: SGML-Grove and SGML-SPGroveBuilder SGML-Grove and SGML-SPGroveBuilder are effectively obsoleted by the libxml-perl and XML-Grove packages (yes, it still supports SGML!). I highly recommend people use libxml-perl and XML-Grove-alpha instead of SGML-Grove and SGML-SPGroveBuilder. Most importantly, it now just uses nsgmls (XML::ESISParser) instead of trying to compile and link against SP. Re: SGMLSpm The libxml-perl equivalent to SGMLSpm is XML::ESISParser. If you're just using them as a direct interface to nsgmls, the basic difference between them is that you call SGMLSpm using $parser->next_event to retreive each event whereas XML::ESISParser calls you for each event. Beyond that, XML::ESISParser is more easily interfaced to other generic modules. There are several modules in libxml-perl that work with both XML::ESISParser and XML::Parser::PerlSAX. XML::Grove can receive events from any parser to build it's grove (via XML::Grove::Builder). More modules are just starting to appear. -- Ken MacLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED]
