On 8/24/07, Jan Van Besien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all > > I would like to known what the status/planning is for the docbook > support in doxia. > > I prefer docbook over apt because it makes it very easy to generate a > maven web site on one hand, and offline pdf documents on the other hand. > Every maven website is just a 'chapter' and we have an offline docbook > file that groups them all together in a 'book' which can be used to > generate pdf from. > > I checked the code and saw that currently it seems to implement > 'simplified docbook'. It does so in a non strict way (doesn't check > doctypes etc), which makes most non 'simplified docbook' documents to > work more or less (not everything is supported ofcourse) as well. Thanks > to this, docbook 5 documents also work for all those features that > existed in 'simplified docbook'. > > I like the approach, but still some changes in docbook 5 are > incompatible with what doxia now supports (links to other pages for > example). > > So my question, what are the plans with this docbook support? And maybe > a suggestion: in stead of writing a docbook parser, couldn't we just do > xslt transformations to html with existing docbook xsl stylesheets? > Maybe not, because it would not comply with the structure of the maven > generated sites...
Doxia doesn't really work that way. If you want to use docbook as a source, then you need to be able to emit directly into a sink (the output). Although you could use xslt to transform into another format (eg APT, or HTML) - you'd still have to use that output's source to sink into the desired output. The problem with chaining source=>sink=>source=>sink is that you are left with a document that is only the intersection of supported features. Make sense? Your best bet is to expand the existing parser to increase support. thnx > Jan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Eric Redmond http://blog.propellors.net
