Re: Apache Forrest was re:giving up on XML

[Sean Wheller <sean -at- inwords -dot- co -dot- za>]

On Friday 16 March 2007 16:46, Sean Hower wrote:
> You know, I just thought of something. Depending on your needs, Apache
> Forrest might be a better XML-based solution than DocBook. It's DTD uses
> tags familiar to those who are used to HTML. It can be extensively, and in
> some cases fairly easily, modified. It produces both a slick Web-based
> output and an optional customizable PDF output. It's also well supported
> and has an active and helpful forum. You still need a tool to write the
> documents. XMLSpy works great and again, there is, or at least was, a free
> edition. But Apache Forrest might be a nice intermediate step for people to
> get into XML with a minimal amount of hassel while opening the door for
> others that want to dig deeper.
>
> I'm not saying everyone should use Apache Forrest, but it might be just
> what someone needs if DocBook is out of scope for their projects. Here's
> the link:
>
> http://forrest.apache.org/

Nice but not really a good idea. I have contributed to Forrest in the part, 
improving some of the docbook stylesheets. That's grand, but it does not give 
you all the rich publishing features of docbook.

I agree that docbook has a steep learning curve. But the end result is well 
worth it, once you know what you are doing :-)
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