From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/11583 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gour Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: db2context package - beta release Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 21:06:09 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20030322200609.GC28754@mail.inet.hr> References: <20030321161151.GA21178@mail.inet.hr> <20030322131912.GC724@scaprea> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1048363697 31761 80.91.224.249 (22 Mar 2003 20:08:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 20:08:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Sat Mar 22 21:08:13 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18wpHp-0008Fn-00 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 21:08:13 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0893210B2E; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 21:08:21 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mail.iskon.hr (mail.iskon.hr [213.191.128.4]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id D6A9710B12 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 21:05:35 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: (qmail 29970 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2003 21:05:36 +0100 Original-Received: from zg02-128.dialin.iskon.hr (HELO gaura) (213.191.130.129) by mail.iskon.hr with SMTP; 22 Mar 2003 21:05:36 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 29115 invoked by uid 500); 22 Mar 2003 20:06:09 -0000 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030322131912.GC724@scaprea> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk X-Reply-To: Gour List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:11583 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:11583 Simon Pepping (spepping@scaprea.hobby.nl) wrote: > So you have gone XSLT. It certainly is a powerful tool to deal with > the complicated Docbook DTD and files. One has complete access to the > elements of the files, and XSLT is a powerful transformation language. Actually I just inspired Nicolas to make db2context since I saw his db2latex package (clone of the original db2latex), and I'm trying to help him with my "knowledge" about ConTeXt. > > I am not quite sure if XSLT is more suitable than Context mapping. I > think that the more complicated the DTD and the files are, the more > advantage there is in using XSLT. So Docbook is a good candidate. > What I like with XSLT is that the user get ConTeXt source which can be further manipulated and we are thinking about providing some customization layer by using many parameters available within ConTeXt setup commands. However, it would be helpful to get the feedback from experienced ConTeXt users so that the transformation from DocBook elements into ConTeXt commands take advantage of poweful ConTeXt's commands. > Good luck with it. > Thank you for your encouragement. Sincerely, Gour -- Gour gour@mail.inet.hr Registered Linux User #278493