From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2004-03-06T00:02:48+09:00
Subject: Re: pickaxe with pics?

On Thursday,  4 March 2004 at 12:36:19 +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:
> 
> On Mar 3, 2004, at 20:59, Its Me wrote:
> >"Dave Thomas" <dave@pragprog.com> wrote in message
> 
> Books written for the Pragmatic Bookshelf now are written in XML, with 
> code inclusion. The XML is converted to PDFs using XSLT to generate 
> TeX, and then a set of macros in TeX to generate Postscript/PDF. We 
> still haven't found anything that generates nicer typeset output.
> 
> The same XMLs can be transformed (again,  using XSLT) to HTML.


Excuse my ignorance, but is the XML transformation to <whatever> via
XLST done with Ruby code? If so, is this something that ships
with Ruby or can be downloaded?

Also, do you have a small snippet of XML, XLST and code to show
the process in action? 
[Dave, can you throw some crumbs to us poor peasants? :)]

-- 
Jim Freeze

I was born because it was a habit in those days, people didn't know
anything else ... I was not a Child Prodigy, because a Child Prodigy is
a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows
up.
		-- Will Rogers