Hi all, the past five or six weeks I've been swamped in real live and was too tired to do any actual OSS work when I came home from work, sorry about the delay.
Last night I gave Docbook a try, the result can be seen here <http://stefan.samaflost.de/xmlunit/docbook/>. The .dbx file is the source, the Ant build file generates the HTML output. PDF has been generated by dblatex[1] and looks more than promising (and far better than the FOP results I remember). What you see there is the default output of the XSL stylesheets and dblatex, both can be tweaked in several ways. Installing dblatex on a Linux/Unix/Mac box shouldn't pose any problems and it even went smoothely on my (Cygwin powered) WinXP work notebook. So far I've tried to stick with Simplified Docbook[2] since it covers all that we need and will keep the learning curve acceptable. I also looked into Open Office (I really did) but think we should prefer (Simplified) Docbook. The syntax is pretty easy, our users can be supposed to be XML savvy and the output looks really well. The next step will be moving the existing document from PDF to docbook which will be a boring manual task ... Stefan Footnotes: [1] http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://www.docbook.org/xml/simple/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Xmlunit-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xmlunit-general
