In response for your kind rejoinder: (1) The page was linked from another, already (DocBook probably) and I figured, I might as well describe it, then; (2) Would one expect a project to be begun, about a technology, if the technology is not even described to whom would be using it?; (4) You have heard of documentation about software, certainly; you might have read that DSSSL might be useful for the generation of such; (5) If this does still violate your clique, then delete it yourself -- Sean Champ
External links work just fine on CLiki. I know you know this because you've used them in this page. Find a good external link and link to it. Don't make CLiki into Wiki. It doesn't need to describe every technology in existance, but just those with a direct relation to Free Common Lisp on *nix.
DSSSL is the Document Style Semantics and Specification Language.
DSSSL was defined of a group, organized in the ISO, the International Standards Organization.
DSSSL, in its first time of popularity, had been used across military organizations, governmental organizations, and corporate organizations (such major organizations might have been some of the most with computers, enough to operate an SGML-based, DSSSL-incorporating document system with).
Today, DSSSL is used in a lot of DocBook-backed document systems, those formal and informal.
DSSSL is defined upon SGML, with some incorporation of features defined in HyTime?.
XSL and XSL:FO, when taken together, would be roughly analogous to DSSSL. DSSSL was the prior, along with the broader SGML, exisitng before and as an original basis to XML.
Certainly, XSL and XSL:FO would be found to contain features, analogous to some of DSSSL.
DSSSL does not leave the style language constrained upon the markup language.
In its application, DSSSL is like as a sort of Lispy Scheme language within SGML. DSSSL, furthermore, defines flow objects and Scheme-like procedures, such that may be applied around a formal model for the appearance of any region, any page, or any set of pages, within a document; DSSSL may be applied, then, for the population of the model, with objects from a grove, which would be derived upon a parsed SGML document.
DSSSL is the language, which is used in the DocBook Modular DSSSL stylesheets -- those occuring, sometimes, as incoporated into a package called docbook utils or docbook tools.
DSSSL can be processed with James Clark's Jade and with the branched, currently active OpenJade
The Cover Pages -- as maintained, now, of OASIS -- do have a page, linked with many references, pertaining about DSSSL, and referenced, along with web pages about other technologies, which DSSSL operates with.
The DSSSL center at Mulberry Technologies, Inc. is a center, like a gathering place, for some dynamic community about DSSSL -- with a mailing list, available there -- as well as some reference items, including The DSSSL Documentation Project and a flow object gallery -- containing some information about the practically famous simple-page-sequence flow-object class, as widely seen, in HTML, which has been generated upon DocBook, using the DocBook Modular DSSSL stylesheets.
(There may be DSSSL-related projects, linked from here.)
This page is linked from: DocBook
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