On 08/03/2009 10:39 AM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:
Instructions like these would sure be appreciated by many, as long as someone has time enough to keep them updated. I still have such a set of instructions for Windows online (http://www.mhoenicka.de/software/sgml/sgmlnt.html), but I'm afraid the XML part is badly outdated, and I don't have time to fix it anytime soon.
Yes, I'd forgotten about yours Markus. I used those for long enough, but my Linux setup has been stable enough that I forgot about half the stuff!
Would Cygwin be acceptable for your "client"? Cygwin has a fairly complete toolchain for XML processing, although I'm not sure about the schema-based DocBook versions.
I'm not best to judge that. I've not had much success with it since it changed from a 'complete' installation. Nor am I sure Windows users would appreciate changing 'environment' or installing such a big item? What do others think? The only thing that remains to be solved
is to take the guesswork out of the installation. Wouldn't it be possible to nudge common package systems, like Linux distros and Cygwin, into providing a basic DocBook processing meta package which simply installs the essential pieces? It should then be easier to go from there if someone doesn't like xsltproc and wants a Java-based processor and so on.
To my knowledge they all do their own thing? Hence my http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/setup/index.html as a complete setup, if peculiar to me. The 'docbook' end is (IMHO) fairly good now and doesn't need adjusting. Just the surrounding tools that need something doing for them. 1) A suggested location (or even a 'base') for those without admin rights 2) Batch/script files to run them for docbook 3) Optional: a make file or ant script 4) A partial catalog file to start things off 5) A catalog.manager file regards regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
