William F. Hammond writes: > Parser output is a nice linear stream. My impression is that > processors are NOT expected to seek but just to make one pass through it. > (Then I believe that some processors construct the whole thing in > memory as a tree.) its quite common to use a tree-based approach. DSSSL does this, highly recommended!!! > 1. Megginson's sgmlspl/sgmlspm comes with docs that may be used to > test the package. The two enclosed demo processors are: > > (a) DocBook to LaTeX > (b) DocBook to HTML > you probably want to look at Norm Walsh's DocBook DSSSL specifications, if this area interests you. they go way beyond what Megginson did. they cover Docbook -> HTML, and Docbook -> TeX/RTF/MIF. Sebastan