Style in DSSSL is a failure (Was: First Open Source Documentation Summit at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention

• To: Sebastian Rahtz <[email protected]>
• Subject: Style in DSSSL is a failure (Was: First Open Source Documentation Summit at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention
• From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]>
• Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:30:13 +0200
• Cc: Camille B�gnis <[email protected]>, docbook-apps <[email protected]>, LDP <[email protected]>, docbook-tools list <[email protected]>
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On Wednesday 19 July 2000, at 15 h 47, the keyboard of Sebastian Rahtz 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> > No. It is buggy, it does not handle non-english languages (french typography, 
> > for instance).
> 
> you should be doing that in the DSSSL. 

Yes, but nobody did it (I write documentation, I do not plan to write 
documentation tools). That's the big failure of DSSSL. It was supposed to 
reinvent the wheel and to redo everything which babel already did. It failed. 
Period.



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