[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: XSLT vs JSP
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Chris Maden wrote: > [Sebastian Rahtz] > > Chuck Robey writes: > > > Troff (or groff, actually) is still being used to write books. > > > That's too bad, > > > > why is that bad? what is wrong with using a high-quality, flexible, > > stable tool for the job? > > Because doing anything but printing with it is a nightmare. For the > forthcoming _Perl CD Bookshelf_ we had _Programming Perl_ in SGML; it > went on-line easily. We had four books in Frame, relatively well- > tagged; we saved them as XML and then processed them into DocBook with > Perl. Pretty easy. _Perl in a Nutshell_ was in troff, and took more > time to convert for on-line use than the other books put together. Amen, took the words right out of my mouth. What's needed is a method that describes the markup in a way not too terribly more complicated than it is now, but is standardized so that moving it to a different format isn't such an adventure. And we should not need to have 4 years of retraining to do this. > > Yuck. > > -Chris > -- > <!NOTATION SGML.Geek PUBLIC "-//Anonymous//NOTATION SGML Geek//EN"> > <!ENTITY crism PUBLIC "-//O'Reilly//NONSGML Christopher R. Maden//EN" > "<URL>http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/ <TEL>+1.617.499.7487 > <USMAIL>90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA" NDATA SGML.Geek> > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic and jaunt, both FreeBSD-current. (301) 220-2114 | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
|
PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced! Download The World's Best XML IDE!Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today! Subscribe in XML format
|