>From: Ian Castle <>
>To: "Matt G." <>
>CC:
>Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: authoritative source for SGML ISO
> character entity definitions?
>Date: 15 Jan 2002 17:45:38 +0000
>
>I maybe completely wrong here... but...
>
>... In linux land, there is a package called sgml-common which
>contains the definitions.
>
>Really, the linux tools (RPMs from say, redhat, Mandrake et. al) are
>getting to the point where they provide a good environment for
>docbook processing "out of the box".
Thanks, but I'm not really interested in packages. To properly maintain an
industrial-strength installation, it is ideal to be able to obtain and
upgrade each component, independently. ...and I don't want to grab entire
kits, simply for the sake of one particular component.
Furthermore, our environment consists of about a hundred Linux + Solaris +
FreeBSD boxes, and everything must be installed on the network, in a
reproducible fashion, so RPMs tend to be pretty useless.
The exception I make, for using kits, is for groups of related tools &
config/data files that are quite mature, such as TeX.
Perhaps sgml-common falls into this category, but it sounds like it might
have a fair amount of stuff I don't need.
>Anyway, it is worth investigating these - lots of nice little scripts
>for managing catalogs etc.
Hmmm... I'll have to look into that. I already do some auto-generation of
catalog files. Need to do more.
>I also have a feeling that they are on the CD that accompanies the
>DocBook book...
Yeah, that's where I got 'em.
Matt Gruenke
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