Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Making the jump to XML

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@canada.com> was heard to say:
| >>>>> "N" == Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:
| 
|     N> There are no problems with CDATA sections. It's marked sections
|     N> controlled by parameter entity references in the document
|     N> content that are problematic.
| 
| That's more encouraging.  So is my alternative is to use element
| attributes and then seperate different output versions by filtering
| these in the stylesheet? (the way I now filter status="review"
| sections).

I'm not sure I follow at all. I assumed you wanted something like this:

<programlisting><![CDATA[#include <stdio.h>
blah blah blah
]]></programlisting>

Which is perfectly legit XML.

| Can anyone recommend a good beginner's guide to the XSL stylesheets?

I hear good things about Micheal Kay's book.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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