[TriLUG] new developments in docbook/xml

[Ed Hill]

Hi Rob,

I do appreciate you posting the info about DocBook-on-Red-Hat upgrades.
And, no, you're not clogging the list with OT junk (see the LOTR thread
for that...)  ;)

So my queston is: why upgrade these packages?  What are the benefits?
Is is just a switch from SGML to XML?  I see that theres some sort of
(minor?) "chunking" ref error as Kevin mentioned below (but have not
seen it yet in my experience).  Are there any show-stopper errors that
these new packages fix?

Just wanted to get a handle on the "why" before diving in...

thanks,
Ed


rpjday wrote:

>   i just spent an hour exchanging email with red hat's tim waugh,
> who is the primary person working on new developments in docbook and
> xml support in red hat.  apparently, i'm going to have to *seriously*
> update my mini-doc given recent changes, but let me summarize what
> you should do if you want to play with this stuff.
> 
> 1) upgrade all of your tetex-related rpms to version 1.0.7-38.2, 
>    available from rawhide.  (i haven't been able to test this yet
>    given my limited download bandwidth, but tim assures me you
>    really need these latest versions.)
> 
> 2) upgrade to newer versions of rpms you can find at
>    ftp://people.redhat.com/twaugh/docbook-pkgs
>    technically, you don't need to install *all* of these, just
>    the ones related to XML and docbook.  but i guess installing/
>    upgrading them all wouldn't hurt anything.
> 
> 3) if you want to experiment with tim's docbook/xml version of his
>    docbookx documentation, you can get the newest version from
>    www.cyberelk.net/tim/docbook/selfdocbookx.tar.gz.
> 
> aside to kevin:  yes, the above should fix the unresolved "chunk"
> references.  if anyone wants to try the above sometime soon, please
> let me know if it all seems to work cleanly.
> 
> rday
> 
> 



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