Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook and TeX/LaTeX

On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 12:35, Michael Wiedmann wrote:
> * Ian Castle <> [020224 11:46]:
>  
> > PassiveTeX takes this approach
> > 
> > see http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/TEI/Software/passivetex/
> 
> passivetex works on FO files, whereas using xmltex with a special
> DocBook map file would create native LaTeX code and let (pdf)latex
> typeset the document - a task which TeX solves really excellent.
> 

Thought I must be missing something obvious.

But what are the advantages?