discuss: anybody here used DocBook 5.0?
Subject:
Re: anybody here used DocBook 5.0?
From:
"Martin A. Brown" ####@####.####
Date:
10 Feb 2016 05:18:55 +0000
Message-Id: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1602092118450.4325@qnttre.jbaqresebt.arg>
Good evening!
>I used DocBook 5 on the Linux Assembly HOWTO.
>
>I used xmlto with dblatex to generate pdf, xmlto itself is able to
>generate epub and html versions.
>
>I haven't used namespaces as I converted an older, no longer maintained,
>document to docbook 5.
>
>Commands used (lifted from makefile):
>xmlto --with-dblatex pdf Assembly-HOWTO.xml
>xmlto epub Assembly-HOWTO.xml
>xmlto html Assembly-HOWTO.xml
Thank you much! I have not yet used xmlto (though xsltproc, xmldiff
and xmllint). Much appreciated. I'll try that tomorrow.
-Martin
>> Has anybody here used DocBook 5.0 yet? I have not.
>>
>> I have skimmed through parts of the DocBook 5.0 transition guide:
>>
>> http://www.docbook.org/docs/howto/
>>
>> My observations:
>>
>> * The namespace bits seem powerful and one of the big reasons
>> anybody would choose DocBook 5.0. My lay understanding is that
>> this allows multiple XML vocabularies to be used intermixed in
>> a single document.
>>
>> * The toolchain looks largely the same as the xsltproc + XSL
>> toolchain that I've grown accustomed to using with DocBook XML.
>>
>> * I saw xlink:href elements in some DocBook 4.x documents in our
>> collection and wondered why somebody had used that notation.
>> Now, I know. This would be a valid declaration for a DocBook
>> 5.0 document in which somebody wanted to included links to,
>> let's say, other websites:
>>
>> <article xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0"
>> xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
>>
>> Anyway, I'm asking if anybody else has used DocBook 5.0 and would
>> share any (other) tips, pointers, Makefiles, CLI invocations or such
>> jazz.
>>
>> -Martin
>>
>> P.S. Yes, I'm also lurking on the public docbook and docbook-apps
>> mailing lists where the DocBook standard and some of the
>> toolchains are discussed. Hoping to osmotically absorb some
>> knowledge there.
>>
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