Bob,

Thanks for this; it is pretty much as I thought.
I'll use Saxon6 then, and the namespaced 1.77 stylesheets.


If the docbook-xsl-saxon-1.0 is deprecated perhaps it could be removed from 
SourceForge, or something be put in its README to that effect.


Regards,
Richard.



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From: Bob Stayton [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 23 July 2012 18:58
To: Kerry, Richard; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Saxon 6 or 9 ? And extensions - extensions/saxon65 
or use docbook-xsl-saxon

Hi Richard,
The DocBook XSL stylesheets that are the most solid are written in XSL 1.0 
(version 1.77.1 is the latest distribution), for which Saxon 6 is most 
compatible.  Saxon 9 is an XSL 2.0 processor that can fall back to 1.0 behavior 
if you use those stylesheets, but you may run into compatibility issues.

The XSL 1.0 stylesheets are available in two versions: docbook-xsl-1.77.1 is 
for non-namespaced DocBook (DocBook version 4 and earlier), and 
docbook-xsl-ns-1.77.1 is for namespaced DocBook (version 5).  I would recommend 
the latter for you.

There are also new XSL 2.0 stylesheets for DocBook, and some people are 
starting to use them, but they are still under development and I personally 
can't speak to their current status and any extensions.

The current Saxon extensions are indeed for version 6.  They are included with 
the docbook-xsl distribution in the extensions directory, so I'm not clear why 
anyone would need a separate docbook-xsl-saxon-1.0 distribution?

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>


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From: Kerry, Richard<mailto:[email protected]>
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Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 4:43 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] Saxon 6 or 9 ? And extensions - extensions/saxon65 or 
use docbook-xsl-saxon




Just putting together a new DocBook system using Saxon.



Using Docbook 5.   (5.1 still looks to be beta)



Should I be using Saxon 6 or 9 ?

And if 6 I note that there are some extensions available.  In that case do I 
just need what's in extensions (ie extensions/saxon65.jar) or should I use 
docbook-xsl-saxon-1.0 ?  (is there anything else that docbook-xsl-saxon gives 
me that I might need ?).

If Saxon 9 are there any extensions I need ?







Appreciatlvely,

Richard.






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