Re: [seul-edu] ebook readers and other such devices...

[Ramin Miraftabi <ramin@cs.joensuu.fi>]

* Doug Loss (dloss@suscom.net) [991123]:%y33Tue, Nov 23, 1999 at 10:03:20AM -0500]:
> I understand what you're saying.  I like the idea of trying to take Open
> eBook and keep it from being proprietized, though.  That's why I'm
> asking about transformation tools rather than recommending that we just
> markup everything in OEB format.  I know that sgmltools can do
> transformations, as that's how the Linux Documentation Project creates
> all the versions of their HOWTOs.  I wonder if it would just be a matter
> of feeding sgmltools the OEB DTD and mapping tags from the source DTD to
> ones in the OEB DTD.  If so, supporting OEB shouldn't be too difficult
> and would be worth pursuing, I think.

It seems like SGMLtools is what I know around here... To get SGMLtools
to understand another DTD would mean that we need to write the
appropriate transformation stylesheets for it. (Basically what happens
is that Jade is called to process the message with the required
information, SGMLtools is only a wrapper.) I guess creating the
stylesheets could be doable if we could get some of the DSSSL gurus to
help out (using Norman Walsh's DocBook stylesheets would naturally
give some direction to the whole matter). All I know is that I -
unfotunately - don't have the time to learn DSSSL or to hack on
something like that...

ramin
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