[Fwd: macros: Changes to 'master']

[Drew Parsons]

On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 19:25 -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 02:15:41PM -0500, Eamon Walsh wrote:
> > 
> > I have been working on some DocBook documentation, but it is in XML, not
> > SGML.  The man page for the docbook2xxx toolchain says it only supports
> > SGML (at present).  Do I have to use SGML for X.Org docs?
> 
> Currently, as far as I know, yes you do. I'm in the process of updating all
> our docs from linuxdoc to docbook. The easiest way to do this is to leave
> it all as sgml, so I focused on that. Do you know of an alternate toolset
> we could use that would support xml that would let us build all the various
> formats we want? Alternately, we could simply try and add support to the
> macros for xml docs too.
> 

docbook2X (docbook2x-man) is supposed to be able to process XML
docbooks. Apart from man, docbook2texi should generate info pages. Other
style sheets might be accessible using the backend, db2x_xsltproc.

Drew