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DocBook-X (Score:2)

by ziggy (25)

I found DocBook-X, a strange little combination of tools to emit PDF from DocBook source.

What an utter piece of crap.
This package is the worst of what open source is about. This is a 16MB download of poorly documented and highly buggy software. Thankfully, it's mostly shell scripts, but completely untested shell scripts (docbook-sh.cfg is a slightly warmed over csh shell script that doesn't work; multiple bugs in docbook2pdf took a while to spot before it led to a few hundred lines of Java exceptio
- Re:DocBook-X (Score:1)
  
  by chromatic (983)
  
  Agreed -- I also wasted time trying to get the broken sh script to work, only to be rewarded by the ubiquitous Java stack trace. I must admit that I've never seen the draw of Java + XML, though.
  - Re:DocBook-X (Score:2)
    
    by ziggy (25) on 2003.01.29 8:58 (#16488) Journal
    
    I must admit that I've never seen the draw of Java + XML, though.
    Then you must not remember Scott McNealy's pronouncement of ca. 1999: «XML gives Java something to do!» :-)
    
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