discuss: Need some advice on Docbook XML
Subject:
Re: [discuss] Need some advice on Docbook XML
From:
Machtelt Garrels ####@####.####
Date:
30 Apr 2007 14:50:15 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0704301638150.12508-100000@www.garrels.be>
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On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Luc de Louw wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> After more that four years of silence, I'm back for updating my
> documents. Meantime SGML is quite a bit out-of-date and I found the Mind
> XML editor, I decided to go for a rewrite in Docbook XML.
>
> I made a prototype with six pages:
> http://www.delouw.ch/linux/draft/Apache2.xml
>
> Before I'm going to put more effort into it, I'd like to have some
> advice from you if I'm on the right way.
>
Only some minor remarks:
- - instead of using embedded section tags, you could put the first sections
in a preface tag.
- - revision can have authorinitials as extra info
- - package names could have application tags to highlight them
- - command tag can have all sorts of children, like parameter, option,
filename, etc.
For conversion to html, you can use xsltproc, like this:
xsltproc --stringparam html.stylesheet xml2html.css --stringparam \
section.autolabel 1 --stringparam admon.graphics 1 \
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/xsl/nwalsh/html/docbook.xsl \
drupal.xml > drupal.html
For conversion to PDF, also, in combination with Apache's FOP:
xsltproc --stringparam html.stylesheet xml2html.css --stringparam \
section.autolabel 1 --stringparam paper.type A4 --stringparam \
admon.graphics 1 \
/usr/share/sgml/docbook/stylesheet/xsl/nwalsh/fo/docbook.xsl
\ drupal-fr.xml > drupal-fr.fo
and then
fop -fo drupal-fr.fo -pdf drupal-fr.pdf
Pathnames are taken from a Debian machine.
Example source files can be found at http://cvsview.tldp.org and in the
Author Guide (appendixes).
Please let me know if you have more questions.
Kind regards,
Tille.
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Machtelt Garrels ####@####.####
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My Penguin, my freedom. http://tille.xalasys.com
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