There are no plans to release SolBook. All Sun documents which are to be made externally available will be converted to DocBook 5.
Ben Rockwood wrote: > Mark Brundege wrote: > >> The SolBook documents are initially exported as XML with an existing >> tool built with OmniMark. >> >> Then a new Java application was built to transform that XML into >> DocBook 5 compliant XML. >> >> The new Java application was built using the standard JAXP 1.3 XML >> APIs that come standard with J2SE 1.5. A description of what this is >> here: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/xml/jaxp/index.html >> >> The Java app uses DOM processing (instead of SAX), and an XSLT 1.0 >> stylesheet (because XSLT 2.0 is not supported in these APIs). >> >> I am new to processing XML on this scale and would appreciate any >> suggestions anyone has with regard to possible approaches to use for >> this. I do want to stick with Java though. >> > > Can we interpret this to mean that SolBook will not be released? > > If this is the case, is all of docs going to migrate to DB5 or will you > continue to use SolBook internally and simply convert things as they > leave the firewall? > > benr.
