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Style in DSSSL is a failure (Was: First Open Source Documentation Summit at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention
- To: Sebastian Rahtz <>
- Subject: Style in DSSSL is a failure (Was: First Open Source Documentation Summit at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention
- From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:30:13 +0200
- cc: Camille Bégnis <>, docbook-apps <>, LDP <>, docbook-tools list <>
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In-reply-to: <Pine.OSF.4.21.0007191545530.8313-100000@ermine.ox.ac.uk> (Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>'s message of Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:47:19 BST)
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On Wednesday 19 July 2000, at 15 h 47, the keyboard of Sebastian Rahtz
<sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> 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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