docbook: Docbook XML questions
Subject:
Re: Docbook XML questions
From:
"Martin A. Brown" ####@####.####
Date:
31 Jul 2003 13:44:06 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.55.0307310830380.1624@enclitic.wonderfrog.net>
: I have just started using Docbook and XML and have some questions.
:
: 1- How can I fix the syntax of complex URLs?
:
: This XML;
: <ulink
: url="http://hostap.epitest.di/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/hostap/README?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain">
: instructions</ulink>
Yes, the '&' inside the URL needs to be escaped properly so the XSLT
processor will substitute the '&'. Right now, xsltproc finds the
beginning of what it thinks is an entity, and finds no end.
Try replacing '&' with '&'.
: Causes the following error from xsltproc;
:
: <sect1 id="install-redhat">
: ^
: accesspoint.xml:928: error: xmlParseEntityRef: expecting ';'
: ap.epitest.di/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/hostap/README?rev=HEAD&content-typ
: ^
: unable to parse accesspoint.xml
:
: I assume that it doesn't like some of the characters inside the URL
: string. How can I fix this?
The rest of your questions revolve around the output from the
stylesheets, which means that you'll find a customization layer
rather handy. Please read up on a customization layer here.
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/CustomMethods.html#CustomizationLayer
Note, for example, in my customization layer for my linux-ip docs I
refer to the absolute URL of Norm Walsh's stylesheets. If your
catalog file is correctly configured, the processor will map this
request to the files in the local filesystem.
http://cvsview.tldp.org/index.cgi/LDP/guide/docbook/linux-ip/xsl/linux-ip-chunk.xsl?rev=1.2&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
:
: 2- Indexing
:
: 3rd level sections and beyond are not getting a contents page entry. I
: have modelled the XML on some HOWTO's I grabbed from TLDP, the
: associated HTML for these examples _do_ have 3rd level contents entries
: even though the syntax used is indetical to mine.
This one, I'm not so sure about, but I think this is the required
setting:
<xsl:param name="toc.section.depth" select="2"/>
: 3- Contents
:
: I am structuring my HOWTO to have each chapter as a seperate HTML page.
: The first two <sect1> tags in the XML are essentially identical, only
: the first one is appended to the index.html page (which I don't want)
: while the second (and subsequent) <sect1> tags do have a seperate HTML
: page created for them.
:
: !-- section1: intro -->
:
: <sect1 id="introduction">
: <title>Introduction</title>
: <indexterm>
: <primary>accesspoint!introduction</primary>
: </indexterm>
:
: <!-- section2: prerequisites -->
:
: <sect1 id="prerequisites">
: <title>Prerequisites</title>
: <indexterm>
: <primary>accesspoint!prerequisites</primary>
: </indexterm>
:
: How can I force section 1 to be created as a sperate HTML page as Sectio
: 2 is, rather than being appended to index.html?
I think this should work. It will need to be added to your XSLT
customization layer.
<xsl:param name="chunk.first.sections" select="'1'"/>
: I am using this command to xsltproc;
:
: xsltproc --nonet -stringparam base.dir output/
: ~/docbook/xsl/xhtml/chunk.xsl accesspoint.xml
:
: Also, I have been unable to assign the resultant HTML pages a filename,
: instead a random one is generated. How can I set a file name for a
: <sect1> tag?
Customization layer necessity:
<xsl:param name="use.id.as.filename" select="1"/>
See also the plethora of documentation about DocBook XSLT and so
forth:
http://docbook.org/wiki/moin.cgi/DocBookDocumentation
Best of luck,
-Martin
