discuss: Question on XML Docbook
Subject:
Re: Question on XML Docbook
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
21 Feb 2002 12:58:48 -0000
Message-Id: <20020221134922.GB9437@lupercalia.net>
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 09:34:45PM -0600, Vivek Venugopalan wrote:
> Folks
> I am trying to transition over to the XML docbook DTD and the XSLT stylesheets. I am trying to use the libxml libraries and the xsltproc for tools since I hear that it is the fastest on the planet! Now, I am having a bunch of problems. Let me go thru them one by one and please help me if you have some answers
>
> 1. In my article I have some entity defn. macros that are basically text replacement macros here are the first few lines of the document
>
> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" [
>
> <!-- Text Macros -->
> <!ENTITY pattern-name "User Interface Validator">
>
> ]>
>
> xsltproc says that this is not supported. So what has changed?
Entities *are* supported. I don't know what's specifically wrong with
your declarations, but that has to be it. Why not take a look at how
the LDP-Author-Guide does it? That's what I do when I'm in doubt,
since it's a big XML doc in our cvs. Sorry I can't help more directly,
but RTFM is all I can do to help here. :-)
> 2. The xslt that came with docbook (1.48) seems to generate a single large html. How do I chunk things?
Don't know, but would love to find out...
> 3. I would like to hear opinion on the web pages xslt. Obviously the DTD is not docbook so is it popular with you folks? Do you use it? Is it something that you would use to migrate your website to?
If you mean docbook-xml-website, I have looked at it and it's pretty
cool. I set up some test stuff (see janus.lupercalia.net) as a proof
of concept. Take a look, that goes for everybody, but it's not really
the "look" that matters, but the fact that it was generated with xslt.
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