Re: Bug#533872: ITP: sdop -- Simple DocBook Processor
Am Sonntag 21 Juni 2009 20:32:07 schrieb Andreas Metzler:
> On 2009-06-21 Hendrik Sattler <post@hendrik-sattler.de> wrote:
> > Am Sonntag 21 Juni 2009 10:05:34 schrieb Andreas Metzler:
> > > * Package name : sdop
> > > Version : 0.52
> > > Upstream Author : Philip Hazel
> > > * License : GPLv2+
> > > Programming Lang: C
> > > Description : Simple DocBook Processor
> > >
> > > SDoP (Simple DocBook Processor) reads a DocBook XML file, processes it
> > > into typeset pages, and outputs the result as PostScript (which can
> > > easily be converted to a PDF). It is "simple" because it supports only
> > > a subset of DocBook, and also because it does not make use of a DTD or
> > > stylesheets or any other heavyweight apparatus. It is a single rogram.
> > > SDoP is used to format the Exim reference manual.
> >
> > Which DocBook version?
> >
> > Is the "subset" standardized somwehere?
>
> According to the documentation: "Support for almost all the elements
> that are part of Simplified DocBook, as defined in the following URL:
>
> http://docs.linux.cz/programming/markup/www.docbook.org/tdg/simple/en/html/
>sdocbook.html The main omissions are support for bibliographies, multiple
> authors, subtables within tables, and some element attributes. Chapter 7
> below contains a complete list of what SDoP does support."
That looks like http://www.docbook.org/schemas/sdocbook/ should fit the
document. So maybe you want to mention the exact name "Simplified Docbook",
maybe even the supported Version of that standard.
That would make it possible to use it as alternative to xsltproc/saxon/xalan
and fop for such cases.
HS
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