xml problems- one more time

[Les Mikesell]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 11:21 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> By itself, the main value of xml is that a standard parser can
>>>> extract the names/values in a portable way and if you use a
>>>> DTD you can check that the values are valid.   Beyond that
>>>> you need some agreement on what the names/values mean.
>>> I understand what you are saying but let me repeat mu main question.
>>> What is xmlto good for and how can it be used?
>> According to this: http://cyberelk.net/tim/data/xmlto/ it is a few 
>> levels up from xml.  It expects xml docbook format as the starting point 
>> and is a script to drive the xslt-based conversion tools to different 
>> output formats.
> At the risk of being argumentative the web page you site just ahs
> versions of xmlto and says nothing about needing docbook format to start
> with. Unless you mean one needs to download one of the tgz files and
> look at the readme.

Sorry, I pasted the wrong link.  This might be more informative:
http://cyberelk.net/tim/xmlto/

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   Les Mikesell
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