Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: db2latex

At 04:34 AM 7/26/01 +0200, Karl Eichwalder wrote:
>"Sebastian Rahtz" <> writes:
>
> > I have been around this world for a good few years, and I have only
> > once met anyone who used architectural forms. Unless you can show me
> > otherwise, I put it to you that AFs are pure theory.
>
>I tried it along David Megginson's book 'Structuring XML Documents'
>using nsgmls and it works.  I don't want to argue whether there are some
>bugs left or not.  IIRC, a Python based implementation exits, too --
>maybe, imcomplete (I didn't check since nsgmls worked).

Architectural forms are the basis of Norman Walsh's literate DSSSL 
DTD/style sheets, which I use fairly regularly (although I gather not many 
people do, as I had to do a local update of them when I installed DB4.1)


Mark B. Wroth
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