DocBook [was: Re: Programmes vs Data [was: Re: [plug] Community Seminars]]

James Devenish devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au
Sat Jun 19 17:11:29 WST 2004


Hi,

In message <20040619082352.GO26977 at patrick.wattle.id.au>
on Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 04:23:52PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> I was under the impression that Docbook is a collection of XSL
> transforms to convert XML into HTML, TeX, man pages, plain text

Those are known as "stylesheets". DocBook itself is probably better
described as "a system of markup and associated semantics". Documents
are written using the markup, then the stylesheets are used to produce
output according to the rules. All of this predates XML and XSLT.





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