[docbook-apps] Re: [docbook] future of DocBook XML Schema (XSD)?
Hi Bob, I manage a large schema that uses DocBook 5. The normative schema is RelaxNG. This schema is automatically translated to XSD using Trang, but the resulting XSD files have to be post-processed in order to fix them before they are useable by consumers. DocBook 6 in pure RelaxNG+Schematron would be fine with me. Cheers, Steve Ball > On 19 Oct 2016, at 5:51 AM, Bob Stayton wrote: > > The DocBook Technical Committee is considering dropping the XML Schema > version of DocBook in a future version 6. We would like to hear from any > members of the DocBook community who would be affected by this change. > > Let me be clear that this change is not on the horizon, but part of our long > term planning. The DocBook TC takes great care in maintaining backwards > compatibility on point releases because we know how much the DocBook > community relies on stable sources. When DocBook rolls to a new major > version number, we treat that as an opportunity to introduce changes that are > not backwards compatible. The change from 4 to 5 was such. If we foresee > such changes coming, we give the DocBook community very advanced notice to > prepare for them. > > We will continue to maintain the DocBook standard in RelaxNG with Schematron > rules, and will continue to generate a compatible DTD. > > However, the process of maintaining the XSD version of DocBook is proving > burdensome because it cannot be completely generated by a conversion program, > and requires manual tweaking. Because we are not sure if anyone is actually > using the XSD version, we are wondering if this is worth the effort. If you > are using it, or have tools that depend on XSD, please let us know. > > You can reply directly to me if you don't want to discuss it on the mailing > list. > > -- > Bob Stayton > Sagehill Enterprises > b...@sagehill.net > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-h...@lists.oasis-open.org > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook to docx
Hi Frederik, The DocBook stylesheet package includes the roundtripping system that does a two-way conversion from DocBook to Word (and Pages and OpenOffice) and back again. You use a template document to specify the styles when going from DocBook to Word. The system has a template document, but you can supply your own. If you’re just looking for a one-way conversion, then that would be a good place to start. Cheers, Steve Ball > On 6 Apr 2016, at 5:55 AM, Fredrik Unger wrote: > > Dear all, > > I have been trying for a while to generate a Word 2010 file from Docbook. > I have a Word Template with styles for the most common things > like Heading 1, Title etc. > > I had some problems with Word 2007 with name changes in styles. > The style Title became Titel in the German version of Word. > > I would like to simply put the content of a Docbook article into > a word document using the external template for style. > Actually > pandoc --from=docbook --to=docx --reference-docx=Template.docx > --output=Article.docx Article.xml > would do but this does not work very well. > > What ways or tools are available ? > Do I have to use other formats as intermediate ? > or is it not possible... > > Basically the article has sections (nested), title, para, imageobjects, and > lists.. tables would be a plus. > Would be ok with a subset but a plus if one can map a tag to a style. > > Any ideas and pointers ? > I have looked at pandoc and python-docx but the solutions become > complex and not very automatic. > There used to be some effort for stylesheets but I guess that would not work > with the predefined styles of the Template ? > > Fredrik Unger > > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
Re: [docbook-apps] Google Summer of Code 2015 -- Last call for participants
Hi All, My current project is to implement the DocBook roundtripping subsystem in a Web browser, using Saxon-CE. However, I feel it needs to be more advanced before getting a student to work on it. Happy to be convinced otherwise… Cheers, Steve Ball > On 10 Feb 2015, at 8:32 am, Richard Hamilton wrote: > > So far, I've only received one message expressing interest in having the > DocBook project apply to participate in the Google Summer of Code this year. > > The applications open today (Feb 9) and close in 10 days (Feb 20), so unless > I hear from a few more people, I don't think it will make sense to apply this > time around. > > I've enclosed my original message for your reference. If you're interested, > now's your last chance to raise your hand. > > Best regards, > Dick Hamilton > --- > XML Press > XML for Technical Communicators > http://xmlpress.net > hamil...@xmlpress.net > > === > As many of you know, the DocBook project (as distinct from the DocBook TC, > though many people participate in both activities) applied to the program > several times and was accepted twice. The program has brought us some useful > software and, even more important, new contributors to the DocBook community. > > To participate this year, we need two things: > > 1) Mentors: we need at least 5 or 6 people who are willing to participate as > mentors. > 2) Ideas: we need ideas for projects that students can work on. > > I'm willing to be the organization administrator again this year, but I'm > glad to hand over responsibility if someone else wants the job this year. > > For the full schedule and more information about the program, go to: > https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2015/help_page > > February 20 is the deadline for applications. To participate, we need to have > mentors lined up by February 9, which is the opening date for filing > applications. > > If you're interested in participating, you can reply to this message on the > list or send me email directly at the address below. > > Best regards, > Dick Hamilton > > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
Re: [docbook-apps] Status of wordml stylesheet in Google Summer Of Code
Hi Benjamin, I am mentoring the student who is working on this project. She is making good progress. At this stage she is developing support for Open Office documents as well as converting the stylesheets to XSLT 2.0. I will have her commit code to the repository when we reach an appropriate milestone. Cheers, Steve Ball On 11/07/2012, at 6:31 AM, Benjamin de Dardel wrote: > Hi all, > > I currently test docbook to wordml processing using ant4docbook > (http://ant4docbook.sourceforge.net). > I remember that some people are working on this subject in the Google Summer > Of Code. > Am I right ? > > Is it possible to know what is the status of the project, and if it's > possible to test some new dbk2wordml.xsl stylesheets ? > > Regards, > > Benjamin > > > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
Re: [docbook-apps] Regarding the project DocBook to Word XML roundtripping XSLs
Hi Buddhiprabha, That all sounds great. At this stage I would say that you need to also take a look at the XML schemas for WordML and Open Office. Files saved by Word or OO are actually zip files, so you can unzip them and take a look at the contents. You need to understand that structure so that you can replicate it in order to create new documents. Cheers, Steve Ball On 05/04/2012, at 3:35 AM, Buddhiprabha Erabadda wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Nice to see you in the mailing list. > > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:20 AM, Steve Ball wrote: > Hi, > > I'm assuming that you have downloaded the DocBook XSL stylesheets? There is a > specification document contained in it that details what is and isn't > supported by the roundtripping system. > > Yes I downloaded the latest snapshot version, docbook-xsl-ns-snapshot.zip > from [1] link and went through lots of folders and Docbook style sheets > inside it. As you said, I converted the specification.xml to HTML format and > went trough all the content of it. That gave me a good understanding about > what are the goals and non-goals of the roundtripping system. > > In what way would you like to participate in the project? Supporting Open > Office? Extending the system to later versions of Word? Use of XSLT 2.0? Let > me know. > > I have great interest in Open Office. Therefore I would like to participate > in "supporting Open Office" way and I am also interested in "Extending the > system to later versions of Word". But I can work in any way you suggest and > I can get familiar with it in few days. > > Since I am very new to Word XML roundtripping XSLs, I will really appreciate > any advice and suggestion regarding this project. And these days I am working > on creating a very strong proposal for this project. Therefore, your guidance > and advice regarding the proposal will be very helpful to me. I will share > with you a draft proposal I have made so far as soon as possible. > > Thanks in advance. > > Cheers, > Steve Ball > Explain > > On 02/04/2012, at 2:03 PM, Buddhiprabha Erabadda wrote: > >> Hi Steve, >> >> >> >> I am Buddhiprabha Erabadda, a third year undergraduate from Computer Science >> and Engineering, University of Moratuwa. I went through the ideas for >> DocBook and got interested in the project DocBook to Word XML roundtripping >> XSLs. I have been studying about DocBook from a few days and now I know the >> process at the client side and I have gathered basic knowledge about XPath >> and XSLT . I have also started studying about DocBook Roundtripping. [1], [2] >> >> >> >> Are there any other links to resources which might be useful to further >> study about the project DocBook to Word XML roundtripping XSLs? I am new to >> DocBook and I would appreciate advice regarding the project. Thank you in >> advance. >> >> >> >> [1] http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw05/papers/edited/ball/poster.html >> >> [2] http://www.explain.com.au/oss/docbook/index.html >> >> -- >> Buddhiprabha Erabadda >> Department of Computer Science and Engineering >> University of Moratuwa >> > > > [1] http://snapshots.docbook.org/ > > > -- > Buddhiprabha Erabadda > Department of Computer Science and Engineering > University of Moratuwa >
Re: [docbook-apps] Regarding the project DocBook to Word XML roundtripping XSLs
Hi, I'm assuming that you have downloaded the DocBook XSL stylesheets? There is a specification document contained in it that details what is and isn't supported by the roundtripping system. In what way would you like to participate in the project? Supporting Open Office? Extending the system to later versions of Word? Use of XSLT 2.0? Let me know. Cheers, Steve Ball Explain On 02/04/2012, at 2:03 PM, Buddhiprabha Erabadda wrote: > Hi Steve, > > > > I am Buddhiprabha Erabadda, a third year undergraduate from Computer Science > and Engineering, University of Moratuwa. I went through the ideas for > DocBook and got interested in the project DocBook to Word XML roundtripping > XSLs. I have been studying about DocBook from a few days and now I know the > process at the client side and I have gathered basic knowledge about XPath > and XSLT . I have also started studying about DocBook Roundtripping. [1], [2] > > > > Are there any other links to resources which might be useful to further study > about the project DocBook to Word XML roundtripping XSLs? I am new to DocBook > and I would appreciate advice regarding the project. Thank you in advance. > > > > [1] http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw05/papers/edited/ball/poster.html > > [2] http://www.explain.com.au/oss/docbook/index.html > > -- > Buddhiprabha Erabadda > Department of Computer Science and Engineering > University of Moratuwa >
Re: [docbook-apps] Problem with tables and roundtrip to WordML
Hi Mathieu, Yes, I have those bug reports and will be developing fixes ASAP. Cheers, Steve Ball On 21/03/2011, at 8:42 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi Steve, > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Steve Ball > wrote: >> Patches certainly are welcome. I'm doing some work on the roundtrip system >> right now, so I can get those modifications into the official release fairly >> soon. > > Are you working on these ones ? > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3197293&group_id=21935&atid=373747 > > and > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3231485&group_id=21935&atid=373747 > > They have no patch, but let me know if you need more info. > > Thanks > -- > Mathieu > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
Re: [docbook-apps] Problem with tables and roundtrip to WordML
Hi David, Patches certainly are welcome. I'm doing some work on the roundtrip system right now, so I can get those modifications into the official release fairly soon. Cheers, Steve Ball - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
Re: [docbook-apps] Problem with tables and roundtrip to WordML
Hi David, Although I have not yet checked, I believe the problem is that the content of the cells is not in a . That is, your DocBook should look like: a1a2 b1b2 As for being able to produce professional looking tables, there is some work to do in setting up table column widths and borders properly. However, YMMV. Cheers, Steve Ball On 01/03/2011, at 7:16 AM, David Hinds wrote: > I'm trying to convert a very simple docbook file to WordML using the > roundtrip XSL stylesheets. I'm having trouble with tables: all cell contents > are missing after the conversion. > > Here is my input document: > > DocBook XML V4.5//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/doc\ > book/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"> > > Sample Table > > > a1a2 > b1b2 > > > > > This renders ok in HTML with: > > xsltproc --path .../docbook-xsl/html -o test.html \ > docbook.xsl test.xml > > but with this: > > xsltproc --path .../docbook-xsl/roundtrip -o test.wml \ > --stringparam wordml.template template.xml \ > dbk2wordml.xsl test2.xml > > the cells in the resulting table are all empty, i.e. the resulting WordML > looks like: > > > > > > > > > I get the same result with either xsltproc or saxon. I am using > docbook-xsl-1.76.1. > > My long term goal is to be able to programmatically generate reports as > templated, styled Word documents from asciidoc source files, with docbook as > an intermediate format, in a linux environment. I need relatively few > features: headers, body text, simple bullet lists, PNG images, and reasonably > professional-looking tables (where that means I need control over column > alignment and borders). > > -- Dave > >
Re: [docbook-apps] Round trip style sheets
Hi Scott, Firstly, it is feasible to transform MS Word 2007 documents directly using XSLT. I haven't yet looked at MS Word 2010 but I imagine that would be OK too. The trick is being able to unpack the .docx file, which is just a Zip file, and locate the document content, which is an XML document. Although the roundtrip stylesheets may not do "MS Word Headings" out-of-the-box, they do have an extension mechanism that would allow you to easily map those styles to something that is supported, like "sect1-title" or "chapter-title". The current stylesheets do not support creating unnumbered sections, mainly because that is difficult to model in the Word document. There may be a parameter to use sections instead of sect1/sect2/etc. In any case, it would be a simple matter to post-process the DocBook document to convert numbered sections to unnumbered. Regarding OOXML, I imagine that's not too far from WordML so it wouldn't be difficult. However, right now my big project is implementing XPath 2.0/XSLT 2.0 for libxml2/libxslt so I don't have any spare time to work on the roundtrip stylesheets :-( Cheers, Steve Ball On 25/01/2011, at 7:07 PM, Speights, Scott wrote: > > Hello, > > I am currentl working with the round-trip style sheets by converting > Word 2010 documents into WordML 2003 documents and transforming with the > round trip style sheets. My testing shows that there is pretty good > support for paragraphs, tables, figures and lists but I noticed that "MS > Word Headings" don't get converted to sections and chapters. (important > to note: I have a German MS Word) > > Do the current style sheets support creating sections or is this > something that I have to do myself by writing my own templates? > > Also, Is there any work planned for supporting transformations with > OOXML? Sorry in advance if I missed any posts about this. > > > Thanks, > Scott > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
Re: [docbook-apps] Word 2007+ to DocBook
Hi, The stylesheet structure was rationalised for the 1.75.2 release so that Word, Pages and OpenOffice formats could all be supported. There is a stylesheet for each of those formats that normalises the document to a common format, and then the other stylesheets take the document through to structured DocBook. Office 2007 basically uses WordML under-the-hood, and a .docx "file" is really just a Zip file containing the XML documents. The one with the document content is word/document.xml. It wouldn't be too much work to upgrade the roundtrip stylesheets to handle this document; basically it is just the XML Namespace URIs that have changed. I'm working on libxslt at the moment (implementing XSLT 2.0), so haven't really got time to look at the roundtripping stuff. However, email me directly if you have any further questions. Cheers, Steve Ball On 07/05/2010, at 6:29 AM, gpev...@aol.com wrote: > Howdy DocBook Community: > > I am new to DocBook, and also new to this forum. I have been going through > the archives, and found some very interesting discussions. Primarily I am > interested in moving/converting some documents from Word which they were > authored in to DocBook. > I have been looking at several tools to help in this process, and found some > very good information here in the archives. > > One method which seems very promising is the docbook-xsl/roundtrip > The discussion for this was from a few years ago. So I am thinking that the > some of the style sheets may have changed with the docbook-xsl-1.75.2 distro > that I have. The suggested conversions were: > > wordml-normalise.xsl, wordml-sections.xsl, wordml-blocks.xsl, > wordml-final.xsl > > none of which I found in the 1.75.2 > Instead I have xsl such as: > normalise-common.xsl, normalise2sections.xsl, sections2blocks.xsl, and > blocks2dbk.xsl > > It seems to me that this is just the logical evolution of the same xsl style > sheets referenced in the archives from years ago. Does anyone know if this is > indeed the case. > > Further there has been little to no discussion or even apparently any new > tools regarding converting Microsoft Word to DocBook at least for quite a > while. > Corresponding roughly to the time when Microsoft Word started implementing > XML or w:xml as I like to call it. It is still very ugly xml, and even though > the new docx format is apparently valid XML it is still cumbersome to work > with, at least in my opinion. > Are there any newer tools designed primarily to work with the latest > incarnation of w:xml or any techniques that could help the effort to get > these docs into DocBook? > I greatly appreciate any response! > > Thanks, > /GregP
Re: [docbook-apps] roundtrip - normalise-common.xsl - customization and section numbering
Hi Mathieu, Some time ago I decided that trying to support limitless section elements was very difficult with the roundtripping system. There is too much of a mismatch between Word's fixed set of styles and DocBook's unlimited sections. Starting and stopping sections at the same level is just about impossible (though I'm willing to be proven wrong ;-). This should answer your question as to why Heading6, Heading7, etc, are not supported: there is no DocBook element to map them to. As far as the bad-title errors are concerned, the document is trying to skip section levels; going from sect2 to sect4 without an intervening sect3. Doing so would violate the DocBook schema. Cheers, Steve Ball On 11/04/2010, at 1:07 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi there, > > I am trying to customize normalise-common.xsl to remap the custom > style to proper 'known names' for wordml rountrip. I am hitting a > small issue here. Here is my custom normalise-common.xsl: > > > > > sect1-title > sect2-title > sect3-title > sect4-title > sect5-title > ... > > However I do not understand: > 1. how I can handle Heading6, Heading7 and Heading8 (they are present > in my original Word document). > 2. This might be related to (1). How do I handle mismatch in original > document such as: > > ERROR "bad-title": title style "sect4-title" mismatches parent "sect2" > ERROR "bad-title": title style "sect5-title" mismatches parent "sect3" > > Basically would it be possible to handle the generic 'section' docbook > element ? > > Thanks ! > -- > Mathieu > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org > > - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
Re: [docbook-apps] Word 2007 Office Open XML; IndentXML
Hi Betty, The roundtripping module in the DocBook XSL distribution should be able to handle MS Office 2007 WordML, the major difference between MS Office 2003 and 2007 being how you actually get at the XML. However, I haven't done any testing on 2007 WordML yet, so at this stage it may not work out-of-the-box. Regarding pretty-printing XML, it is almost trivial to write an XSL stylesheet that strips all whitespace from a document and then indents the output. Attached is my version. Be careful though - you may lose document data (significant spaces) using this stylesheet. Cheers, Steve Ball indent.xsl Description: Binary data On 20/03/2009, at 12:45 AM, Betty Ing wrote: Hello, How much effort is required to leverage MS Word 2007 Office Open XML for generating DocBook XML? Has anyone used the IndentXML application for prettifying human-unreadable XML code? Thanks for your input. Betty - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis- open.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
Re: [docbook-apps] Landscape tables across multiple pages
Hi Paul, I recently had the very same requirement for a client. Rotating the page 90 degrees is certainly not a desirable solution. The problem was solved by pre-processing the DocBook document to flatten the section structure, and then group together the portrait and landscape parts (XSLT2 is excellent for this purpose!). Those different parts are then rendered as sequential fo:page-sequences. Let me know if you would like further information on this approach. Cheers, Steve Ball On 06/11/2008, at 11:10 PM, Paul Suckling wrote: Hi Bob. I am not an XSL expert, let alone a DocBook XSL expert, and the customisation required to get PSMI to work for DocBook articles with nested sections looks quite involved, so I am going to investigate the Antenna House processor. Otherwise I'll just have to fall back to splitting such tables manually. Thank you for your reply. Paul 2008/11/5 Bob Stayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, The easiest way is to use the Antenna House processor and put the table inside an fo:block-container with its reference-orientation="90". Antenna House has implemented an extension to the standard to flow such block-containers onto multiple pages. In fact, the current DocBook stylesheets do that already, in the template named 'table.container' in fo/table.xsl. So just setting orient="land" on a table should do it. If AH is not feasible, then PSMI is the only way I know to do it. It is not implemented in the DocBook stylesheets, so you'll have to implement it yourself. Because PSMI breaks a flow into multiple page sequences, it does require closing all open fo elements in the flow before the table. That would require additional customization because of the use of fo:block nesting around sections. You would need to customize the template with match="section" in fo/sections.xsl, removing the section block wrapper. When you do that, however, you lose the ability to place attributes on the container block, those attributes coming from section.level1.properties et al. Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Paul Suckling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 6:42 AM Subject: [docbook-apps] Landscape tables across multiple pages I have got some long wide tables in my DocBook article. I would like to either place them on a series of landscape pages, or keep them on a portrait page but have them rotated. I found a solution which does the latter but not adequately: The tables don't split across multiple pages. I have done a search of the archives and came across this thread, http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200301/msg00144.html , which suggests that the best way to do it is to use PSMI (http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/resources/psmi/index.htm). However, this only appears to work for tables that are direct children of chapters and appendices. My DocBook is an article, and so the tables are children of sections. That thread appeared in 2004. Have things moved on from there now? Can anyone advise me what the best way of achieving landscape tables is with DocBook today? Thanks, Paul -- Nashi Power. http://nashi.podzone.org/ Registered address: 7 Trescoe Gardens, Harrow, Middx., U.K. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] open.org For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Nashi Power. http://nashi.podzone.org/ Registered address: 7 Trescoe Gardens, Harrow, Middx., U.K. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] open.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [docbook-apps] roundtrip - wordml2normalise.xsl/normalise-common.xsl - customizing possible?
Hi Vittorio, Firstly, the roundtrip stylesheets are designed to work with a Word document authored using the given template - not just any arbitrary Word document. However, the stylesheets now sport a customisation layer that allows you to map custom style names to one of the known style names (as defined in the roundtrip specification). What I do is rename normalise- common.xsl to rnd-normalise-common.xsl and then write my own normalise- common.xsl that imports rnd-normalise-common.xsl. In your custom stylesheet override the rnd:map-paragraph-style and/or rnd:map- character-style templates. You template might look something like this: para Basically, this is the XSLT equivalent of sed. I do have some documentation on this... I'll get around to posting on a website RSN ;-) Cheers, Steve Ball On 29/07/2008, at 8:53 PM, Vittorio Muth wrote: Hi all, I'm not familiar with WordML nor DocBook but trying to convert 1 WordML file with ~200 pages to DocBook. (a good start...) When running the XML pipeline WordML2DocBook I got errors at the end (blocks2dbk.xsl) with 35 different paragraph styles. e.g. 'ERROR "unknown-style": unknown paragraph style "berschrift1" encountered' Yes - the WordML file had a customized German 'MySpecialWord.dot' at the beginning... I found out, that the template 'rnd:map-paragraph-style' is imported to wordml2normalise.xsl from 'normalise-common.xsl'. Now the question: Does it make sense to customize the file "normalise-common.xsl" to match the German styles which had been used in myWordFile.doc (based on mySpecialWord.dot and saved as myWordFile.xml)? Or should I just replace those 35 styles with sed? ;-) thanks in advance, Vittorio - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] open.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AW: [docbook-apps] roundtrip-stylesheets
Hi Robert, I just checked the stylesheets to determine to what extent variablelist is currently supported. There are paragraph styles in the template for variablelist-title and variablelist-term. The plan is to include all content immediately after the variablelist-term in the corresponding varlistentry/listitem. blocks2dbk.xsl has no mention of variablelist. dbk2wp.xsl translates variablelists into a table, which is incorrect (the old method). So the current status is that the template is ready but the feature needs to be implemented properly. Sorry about that... it will be done in the fullness of time ;-) At the moment my priority is to get features working and tested that my (paying) clients require. After that I'll move on to everything else. Steve Ball On 19/05/2008, at 3:54 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Hi Steve, thank you for your answer. I've got the latest snapshot of the roundtrip-stylesheets from the SVN repository and I use the following pipeline to convert a word- XML file to docbook: xsltproc wordml2normalise.xsl $1 | \ xsltproc normalise2sections.xsl - | \ xsltproc sections2blocks.xsl - | \ xsltproc blocks2dbk.xsl - Then I've modified the template.xml like this: Titel (article-title) This document is not blank. (Standard;para) My List entry (variablelist-title) term term term term (variablelist-term) bla bla bla.(Standard;para) In the brackets are the word-formats/styles written. But I receive a error-message: ERROR "unknown-style": unknown paragraph style "variablelist-term" encountered http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"; xmlns:rnd="http://docbook .org/ns/docbook/roundtrip" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink";> Titel This document is not blank. unknown-style unknown paragraph style "variablelist-term" encountered ssage> bla bla bla. It looks like anything is wrong with the "variablelist-term" style. Any idea how to format a variablelist in word in order to convert it to docbook with the roundtrip-stylesheets? Thank you in advance Robert -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Steve Ball [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Mai 2008 23:38 An: Buergel Robert, EI-30 Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Betreff: Re: [docbook-apps] roundtrip-stylesheets Hi Robert, Firstly, make sure you are using the new set of stylesheets. The pipeline should be: xsltproc .../wordml2normalise.xsl $1 | \ xsltproc .../normalise2sections.xsl - | \ xsltproc .../sections2blocks.xsl - | \ xsltproc .../blocks2dbk.xsl - I have been doing work on the system lately (mainly on tables), but I have not been testing variablelist support (yet - I am planning on more thoroughly testing all supported elements). In any case, it may be a good idea to pull the latest versions from the SVN repository. Cheers, Steve Ball On 06/05/2008, at 3:55 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm working with the roundtrip-stylesheets in order to create a docbook-XML-file out of a WordML-XML-file. But I have problems to use the variablelist-format. In the word-file I got 2 paragraphs. The first is formatted as variablelist-term and the second as variablelist the wordML-file looks like this - and I think this is ok: Term 1 description of term 1 But if I do this: xsltproc /usr/share/docbook-xsl/roundtrip/wordml-normalise.xsl $1 | \ xsltproc /usr/share/docbook-xsl/roundtrip/wordml-sections.xsl - | \ xsltproc /usr/share/docbook-xsl/roundtrip/wordml-blocks.xsl - | \ xsltproc /usr/share/docbook-xsl/roundtrip/wordml-final.xsl - I receive: No match found for variablelist-term No match found for variablelist All other stuff works fine but the variablelist not. Any hints to get the variablelist working? I use the following stylesheets: pages2normalise.xsl 7266 2007-08-22 normalise2sections.xsl 7266 2007-08-22 sections2blocks.xsl 7266 2007-08-22 wordml2normalise.xsl 7266 2007-08-22 Thanks in advance. Regards Robert - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] open.org For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] open.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [docbook-apps] roundtrip-stylesheets
Hi Robert, Firstly, make sure you are using the new set of stylesheets. The pipeline should be: xsltproc .../wordml2normalise.xsl $1 | \ xsltproc .../normalise2sections.xsl - | \ xsltproc .../sections2blocks.xsl - | \ xsltproc .../blocks2dbk.xsl - I have been doing work on the system lately (mainly on tables), but I have not been testing variablelist support (yet - I am planning on more thoroughly testing all supported elements). In any case, it may be a good idea to pull the latest versions from the SVN repository. Cheers, Steve Ball On 06/05/2008, at 3:55 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Hi all, I'm working with the roundtrip-stylesheets in order to create a docbook-XML-file out of a WordML-XML-file. But I have problems to use the variablelist-format. In the word-file I got 2 paragraphs. The first is formatted as variablelist-term and the second as variablelist the wordML-file looks like this - and I think this is ok: Term 1 description of term 1 But if I do this: xsltproc /usr/share/docbook-xsl/roundtrip/wordml-normalise.xsl $1 | \ xsltproc /usr/share/docbook-xsl/roundtrip/wordml-sections.xsl - | \ xsltproc /usr/share/docbook-xsl/roundtrip/wordml-blocks.xsl - | \ xsltproc /usr/share/docbook-xsl/roundtrip/wordml-final.xsl - I receive: No match found for variablelist-term No match found for variablelist All other stuff works fine but the variablelist not. Any hints to get the variablelist working? I use the following stylesheets: pages2normalise.xsl 7266 2007-08-22 normalise2sections.xsl 7266 2007-08-22 sections2blocks.xsl 7266 2007-08-22 wordml2normalise.xsl 7266 2007-08-22 Thanks in advance. Regards Robert - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] open.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook editor
Hi Lars, The DocBook roundtripping system aims to use a word processor (MS Word, Apple Pages, Open Office) as the front-end editor for DocBook documents. Naturally, there are some limitations but it can handle a useful subset of DocBook. It works by using XSLT to convert he word processor's XML to DocBook, and vice-versa. Accordingly, you some sort of framework to run the transformations. I'm working on that too. Cheers, Steve Ball On 30/01/2008, at 1:13 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Hi. I have been using XMLmind XXE as a DocBook editor and it works fine. However I have been asked to investigate the possibility to use MS Word as an alternative and this is the reason for ma inquiry: Does anybody have any experience in using MS Word as a DocBook editor? Does it work? Is it easy or hard to set up? Is it easy or hard to use? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[docbook-apps] Roundtrip Stylesheets
Hello Roundtripping system users, Just to let you all know, in the lead up to the release of the 1.74.0 XSL stylesheets I am planning on cleaning up the stylesheets in the roundtrip subdirectory. In order to reduce confusion, I will remove the deprecated stylesheets and add a little documentation, a README or similar, to explain how to use the new stylesheets. The Word, Pages and Open Office template files will be upgraded to support the new stylesheets. If folks are still wanting to use the old stylesheets, then they will have to get them from the 1.73.X distributions. Feel free to send me any comments on this approach. Cheers, Steve Ball - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [docbook-apps] images in docbook to wordml transformation
Hi Antti, Undoubtedly you are aware that WordML and DocBook have different storage models for image data. DocBook is similar to HTML in that images are linked to (ie. the image data is stored in a separate file). WordML stores image data embedded in the XML as base-64 encoded data. With XSLT the only thing that can be done with this data is to write it to a separate file (and then only if you have the xsl:document, or its equivalent, extension element available). The problem then is how to decode the base-64 into the binary image data. Of course, there is the opposite problem when converting a DocBook document to WordML; the image data must be read from the file and base-64 encoded. MS Office 2007, Apple Pages and Open Office each do things a bit differently, and I am currently investigating how to handle images in those formats. In the roundtripping system, at present images are supported as hypertext references, where the target of the reference (ie. the value of the @fileref attribute) is the content of the paragraph. For the WordML-to-DocBook conversion, when an embedded image is encountered in the document the stylesheet will attempt to write the base-64 encoded data into a new file and then use that file's filename as the URI for the @fileref attribute. How you then decode the image data is up to you. Regarding image metadata, titles for elements are supported and must appear immediately before the image reference. Captions are also supported and must appear after the image reference. Anything in between the image reference and the caption becomes the content of the textobject element. If you want to have a textobject element without a caption, then you must insert an empty caption-styled paragraph. BTW, I am planning on producing documentation for these editorial rules. Honest ;-) HTHs, Steve Ball On 08/01/2008, at 12:35 AM, Antti Karanta wrote: Hi! I was wondering what image formats are supported in docbook to wordml transformation. I did a little experiment and only the image names turned out in the transformed wordml document. So, I had a look at the roundtrip/docbook.xsl stylesheet, and with my limited xsl knowledge, it seems that this is the only support there is for any kind of images, at least using the mediaobject element containing one or more imageobjects w/ imagedata pointing to an external file w/ fileref, e.g. alternative text is rendered as just """ image.svg slides.png Text Object 1 alternative text """ Are images not supported at all in the transformation from docbook to wordml? Or is it just not yet supported? Or did I miss something? -Antti- Ps. I'm using docbook-xsl-snapshot from monday. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] open.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [docbook-apps] docbook to wordml conversion questions
Hi Mayo, I am the current maintainer of the roundtripping stylesheets. One thing to note is that there are two different sets of stylesheets to converting to/from DocBook; the original stylesheets that are now deprecated, and a new set that have better support for the different word processors (Open Office, Pages) and are more easily maintainable. It would help me tremendously if you could be clear about which set you are using. As Fabian has pointed out, thee stylesheets assume valid DocBook. The new set of stylesheets are designed to work with DocBook v5.0. See below for further comments. Cheers, Steve Ball On 05/01/2008, at 8:33 AM, Mayo Jordanov wrote: Hello, I'm having some issues with docbook to wordml conversion, and was wondering if anyone on this list would be able to help me out. The document gets converted with no errors, but there are some big problems with ordered and itemized lists. 1)the text in the lists does not show up. It is in the generated wordml document, however there are some elements missing around it ( specifically, as if the inside of wasn't getting parsed by the xsl sheet). 2) the current docbook-xsl release (1.73.2) itemized lists don't have bullets, but ordered lists have numbers, and with the docbook- xsl snapshot bulleted lists have bullets, but ordered lists don't have numbers. The document I'm trying to convert is as simple as: testing bullet one bullet two number one number two To solve 1) I've tried with both and without inside of elements, but that doesn't help, and according to the comments in the xsl stylesheet it expects (as it should). The only solution I found was to modify the roundtrip/docbook.xsl sheet and insert around the contents of the element definitely helps to solve this problem. (I'm fairly fluent in xsl, but don't have much experience with debugging xsl files, so putting it there manually rather than trying to track why the inside of is getting ignored was easier for me.) According to the wordml 2003 spec (http://rep.oio.dk/Microsoft.com/officeschemas/welcome.htm ) the is required. My second issue seems to be related to the worldml template document, and I haven't been able to figure out what exactly changed in it and why it suddenly shows bullets but numbers are gone. The template has been changed to better support the new stylesheets. Sorry if that has broken anything, but if you need the old version then grab that from the 1.73.2 distribution. I was also wondering if anyone is actively maintaining the docbook to wordml xsl sheet (roundtrip/docbook.xsl) or if they are just occasionally updated. Or are they intended just as an example and should be developed further by users? Yes, that's me. They are intended as a complete application, but also include a customisation layer (documentation on that is coming soon). - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [docbook-apps] Re: docbook to wordml problems
Hi Antti, On 04/01/2008, at 6:41 PM, Antti Karanta wrote: On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:41:20 +0200, Steve Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Firstly, the stylesheet you are using is the old version; I'm currently working on a new system of XSL stylesheets, currently only in the Subversion repository. Ok, I took the latest snapshot, dated last monday. If I understood correctly, the snapshots should be up to date w/ svn head, right? Yes. Secondly, the output of the stylesheet is an XML file, not a binary Word document. Therefore the file extension should be ".xml", not ".doc". Word handles wordml files w/ extension .doc just fine. The benefit is that I can send that file to someone and not have to explain that it's really a word document. Well, there you go! You learn something every day! MS Word is very helpful with its error reporting, isn't it? What I do is "pretty-print" the WordML document and then try and open it is Word again. That gives you a more helpful line location to track down the problem. I tried that (sorry, forgot to mention), but the exact location word points to contains a tab. = / The offending line (and the following lines upto the corresponding closing tag) looks like this: revhistory encountered in articleinfo, but no template matches. Manually adding tags to surround this seems to remedy the problem. Perhaps this should be corrected to the stylesheets? Yes, this is a typical bug in the stylesheets. It is tricky to know when to insert w:p, w:r and w:t tags. The only problem validating was because this tag in the headers had no content: I don't understand how this tag is w/out a value since in the template it is 19 I manually added a value and the generated wordml document now validates againts the schema. However, it still does not open in word (as explained above). = / I'll look into that. Ok, it seems that the wordml xsl stylesheets are work in progress. Do you have any guesstimates when they might be in usable condition? I am actively working on them now, but I can't commit to a completion date. However, I have (paying) clients who will soon be relying on this so it won't take long. Ps. Someone on this forum pointed out in reply to one of my earlier posts that roundtrip/supported.xml does not render correctly to pdf (w/ the fo stylesheets + fop) because on line 42 it has evan though there are five columns. You might want to correct that. Fair enough... I'll fix that too. Cheers, Steve Ball - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [docbook-apps] docbook to wordml problems
Hi Antti, Firstly, the stylesheet you are using is the old version; I'm currently working on a new system of XSL stylesheets, currently only in the Subversion repository. This new version aims to make the roundtripping system more maintainable and more easily able to support multiple word processors (Open Office, Pages). At this stage I'm reluctant to make fixes to the old stylesheets. Secondly, the output of the stylesheet is an XML file, not a binary Word document. Therefore the file extension should be ".xml", not ".doc". As far as the XML declaration is concerned, that depends on how the XSLT engine serialises the result document. I normally use xsltproc (libxslt) and it does the right thing. The new stylesheet explicitly set the character encoding, so it should be OK. You'll also find that Word/Windows requires a processing instruction giving the application for the XML document. MS Word is very helpful with its error reporting, isn't it? What I do is "pretty-print" the WordML document and then try and open it is Word again. That gives you a more helpful line location to track down the problem. Finally, regarding the WordML XML schema, if the document doesn't open in Word then that likely is because it doesn't validate. Validation is the first step in getting a document to open in Word, but it is not the last step ;-) HTHs, Steve Ball On 04/01/2008, at 1:08 AM, Antti Karanta wrote: Hi! I tested the docbook -> wordml xsl stylesheets in the docbook stylesheets distribution and they produced wordml that does not validate against the wordml schema. I transformed the docbook document telling what docbook elements are supported in the wordml transformation to wordml. Here's details of what I did: C:\downloaded\docbook>C:\programs\Java\jdk1.6.0_03\bin\java -Xss1m - cp C:\programs\Java\saxon655\saxon.jar;C:\work\napa\jnapa\commons\lib \batik\xercesImpl.jar;C:\downloaded\docbook\docbook- xsl-1.73.2\extensions\saxon65.jar - Djavax .xml .parsers .DocumentBuilderFactory =org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl - Djavax .xml .parsers .SAXParserFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet -o \temp\supported.doc docbook- xsl-1.73.2\roundtrip\supported_test.xml \downloaded\docbook\docbook- xsl-1.73.2\roundtrip\docbook.xsl wordml.template=file:///c:/downloaded/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.73.2/roundtrip/template.xml Recoverable error Ambiguous rule match for /article[1]/articleinfo[1]/author[1] Matches both "author|editor|othercredit" on line 267 of file:/C:/ downloaded/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.73.2/roundtrip/docbook .xsl and "*[contains(name(), "info")]/*[not(self::title|self::subtitle| self::titleabbrev)]" on line 265 of file:/C:/downloade d/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.73.2/roundtrip/docbook.xsl Recoverable error Ambiguous rule match for /article[1]/articleinfo[1]/releaseinfo[1] Matches both "releaseinfo" on line 391 of file:/C:/downloaded/ docbook/docbook-xsl-1.73.2/roundtrip/docbook.xsl and "*[contains(name(), "info")]/*[not(self::title|self::subtitle| self::titleabbrev)]" on line 265 of file:/C:/downloade d/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.73.2/roundtrip/docbook.xsl revhistory encountered in articleinfo, but no template matches. sgmltag encountered in para, but no template matches. literal encountered in para, but no template matches. < ... pageloads of these same warnings (?) cut off ...> Word opens the generated wordml file as text. This was easily remedied by inserting the missing in the beginning of the file. BTW, why is this missing? Can I set some option to get this snippet generated? It does not help a lot, though, now word complains: " The XML file supported.doc cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents. Details: Unspecified error Error location: Line 3, Column 69343 " Word version 2003 (11.5604.5606) Also, the generated word document does not validate against the wordml schema (which I downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ca83cb4f-8dee-41a3-9c25-dd889aea781c&displaylang=en ). Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? Any known workarounds? -Antti- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] open.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[docbook-apps] Re: Update on roundtrip: wordml to docbook
Hi Mathieu, All of my changes are checked in to the Subversion repository. The latest release of the DocBook XSL stylesheets includes the "Next Gen" system. Lately I've been doing a some work on the roundtripping system, so I'll revisit your bug report and check to see if it is still occurring. Cheers, Steve Ball On 08/10/2007, at 9:58 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Anyone ? Thanks, On 10/1/07, Mathieu Malaterre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, I posted a while back a couples of issues with roundtrip doing a wordml to docbook conversion. Ref: http://www.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/200701/ msg00244.html Steve Ball mentioned he is working on the 'next gen' of roundtrip. Is there any update on that work ? BTW is it going to move to XSLT 2.0 (simple curiosity) ? As a side note is there anyone else trying to convert a 'human written' document into a 'machine' readable document ? I have done very little progress for extracting some info (mostly ): from http://gdcm.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gdcm/Sandbox/07_03pu.xml into http://gdcm.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/gdcm/trunk/Source/ InformationObjectDefinition/ModuleAttributes.xml Should I give up on docbook and switch to ODF (micro$oft has now a full converter from doc to odf) ? Are there more tools digesting ODF than docbook ? Thanks for comments, -- Mathieu Ref: original word document can be found here: http://medical.nema.org/dicom/2007/07_03pu.doc -- Mathieu - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [docbook-apps] Rountrip xsl - unable to open template.dot
Hi Mathias, You need to use template.xml, not template.dot. All inputs to a (v1.0) XSL stylesheet must be XML. The file template.dot is only there for reference. HTHs, Steve Ball On 30/04/2007, at 6:01 PM, Mathias Reinke wrote: Hi I use the docbook stylesheets from docbook-xsl-1.72.0 distribution. I'd like to do a docbook2wordml transformation managed by an ant target, e.g.: But I get the following error concerning the template file: [xslt] C:/lib/docbook/docbook-xsl/docbook-xsl-1.72.0/roundtrip/ dbk2wordml.xsl:32: Error! com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.io.MalformedByteSequenceExcept ion: Invalid byte 2 of 2-byte UTF-8 sequence. Cause: com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.io.MalformedByteSequenceExcept ion: Invalid byte 2 of 2-byte UTF-8 sequence. [xslt] Unable to open template document "C:/lib/docbook/docbook-xsl/ docbook-xsl-1.72.0/roundtrip/template.dot" [xslt] Failed to process C:\example.xml I tried it with several processors like saxon8, saxon655, xalan27. Do I something wrong? Any help is appreciated! Regards, Mathias -- "Feel free" - 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX TopMail testen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] open.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook and OpenOffice
Hi Ray, Yes they should support the book root element. If not, that's a bug and please report it. At the very least, article, book and chapter are supported. The new stylesheets that I am currently working will support appendix, preface and all other toplevel elements. Cheers, Steve Ball On 19/04/2007, at 8:27 AM, Miller, Ray (Centech) wrote: ... At the moment MS Word 2003 and Apple Pages are supported.< Is the book root element currently supported; most interested for a US Federal agency. Ray - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] open.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook and OpenOffice
Hi Colin, I'm currently working on the DocBook round-tripping system. The aim is to allow exactly what you are looking for: use a word processor as a front-end editor for DocBook. It has stylesheets to convert from DocBook to a word processing format, and another set of stylesheets that convert from word processing format back into DocBook without loss of information. At the moment MS Word 2003 and Apple Pages are supported. I'm working on adding OpenOffice support, and basic paragraph-based styles work but there is still more work to do on tables and images. The stylesheets haven't been checked-in to SVN yet because they're not quite finished, but if you would like a sneak-peek then let me know. Cheers, Steve Ball On 19/04/2007, at 6:55 AM, Colin Shapiro wrote: Hi all, I'm looking to use OpenOffice Writer as a temporary editor for DocBook documents. Basically, I need to allow certain people to edit DocBook documents who have never worked with markup languages before, but are familiar with OpenOffice. I've played around with OpenOffice's built-in DocBook support in the past with only partial success. I am guessing that the best way is to write a couple of stylesheets to transform DocBook to/ from the OpenDocument format. I don't need full interoperability, because I plan on cleaning up the end results myself before publishing. I've looked at the OpenDocument format and I'm pretty confident that I can write stylesheets to get the basic transformations that I need. However, this will take time I'd rather not spend if I don't have to. Has anyone else done something like this? I've Googled a bit but haven't found anything usable. Colin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [docbook-apps] RE: Roundtrip stylesheets how-to?
Hi Denis, OK - those are straight-forward bugs. Fixed in my working copy and will be committed to the repository rsn. In the meantime, change "text" to "content", "sum" to "doc:sum". Now, the dbk2* stylesheets are new and I haven't had time to write up some documentation. The dbk2wp.xsl stylesheet is a module imported by the other dbk2* stylesheets. You should use dbk2wordml.xsl, dbk2pages.xsl or dbk2ooo.xsl depending on which word processor you are targetting the output for. BTW, I'm working on a new system for the reverse conversion that will handle OpenOffice. HTHs, Steve Ball On 04/03/2007, at 11:38 AM, Denis Bradford wrote: Sorry, sent the previous before finished. I meant to say, I tried this: java com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet -r org.apache.xml.resolver.tools.CatalogResolver -x org.apache.xml.resolver.tools.ResolvingXMLReader -o hr-resume.sxw hr-resume-docbook.xml roundtrip/dbk2wordml.xsl Got this result: Error at xsl:value-of on line 688 of file:/opt/xml/xsl/docbook- xsl-1.72.0/roundtrip/dbk2wp.xsl: Variable text has not been declared Error at xsl:value-of on line 702 of file:/opt/xml/xsl/docbook- xsl-1.72.0/roundtrip/dbk2wp.xsl: Variable text has not been declared Error at xsl:call-template on line 549 of file:/opt/xml/xsl/docbook- xsl-1.72.0/roundtrip/dbk2wp.xsl: No template exists named sum Error at xsl:with-param on line 796 of file:/opt/xml/xsl/docbook- xsl-1.72.0/roundtrip/dbk2wp.xsl: Duplicate parameter name Transformation failed: Failed to compile stylesheet. 4 errors detected. I have an idea that I need to do something with one of the templates - is that what I'm missing? Original Message Subject: Roundtrip stylesheets how-to? Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:14:08 -0500 From: Denis Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Is there a description of the basic usage of the roundtrip stylesheets? Forgive me if it's there - I have looked. Failing that, maybe someone who's done it can steer me straight: for starters, how about transforming a DocBook article to OpenOffice? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] open.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Mac OS X Toolchain?
Michael D. Crawford wrote: Does anyone have support for publishing DocBook XML documents on Mac OS X with the DSSSL stylesheets? No, but I have setup the XSL stylesheet system using libxslt & Fop. Works very nicely ;-) I have this nice almost-brand-new iBook and it would really be the most convenient to me if I could pick up again on the book I'm writing by using my iBook. OS X is just BSD Unix under-the-covers, and it is fairly straight-forward to get source code compiled and working (as long as you install the developers tools, of course). No nice, fancy GUI as yet... but I'm working on that! HTHs, Steve Ball -- Steve Ball| XSLT Standard Library | Training & Seminars Zveno Pty Ltd | Web Tcl Complete | XML XSL Schemas http://www.zveno.com/ | TclXML TclDOM| Tcl, Web Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+- Ph. +61 2 6242 4099 | Mobile (0413) 594 462 | Fax +61 2 6242 4099
Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: looking for docbook/xml/xslt/etc courseware
Dear Robert, You wrote: i have a couple clients who are interested in a course in xml/docbook and associated processing. i could write it myself at this point, but it would take some time. does anyone have recent, up-to-date and battle-tested courseware? feel free to drop me a note and we can talk. or point me at a web site where i can take a look at some offerings and we can negotiate later. thanks. We have a comprehensive range of XML courseware, including DocBook topics. You do want to teach DocBook using XML, and not SGML, right? The website to look at is http://www.zveno.com/courses/ In fact, our courseware is itself written in DocBook and the diagrams in SVG. These are processed using XSLT to produce the course materials. We use XSL-FO + FOP for printed materials and SVG for data projection (instead of PowerPoint). IOW, we eat our own dogfood ;-) Cheers, Steve Ball -- Steve Ball| XSLT Standard Library | Training & Seminars Zveno Pty Ltd | Web Tcl Complete | XML XSL Schemas http://www.zveno.com/ | TclXML TclDOM| Tcl, Web Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+- Ph. +61 2 6242 4099 | Mobile (0413) 594 462 | Fax +61 2 6242 4099
Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: SVG in HTML output, XSLT stylesheets
Dave Pawson wrote: > At 22:57 21/05/2002 +1000, Steve Ball wrote: > >>> Perhaps suggest for inclusion in mediaobject? >> >> I treat them exactly the same way as images, ie. use >> imageobject inside a mediaobject. I note that DocBook >> 4.1.2+ has provision for SVG. > > Do the html stylesheets do the right thing? > (just wait till we get inline SVG!) No. I've had to customise the stylesheets. When handling an SVG document (identified by the file extension '.svg') they use an element instead of . Not sure at this stage how Mozilla will change this:- it will be very difficult to produce portable Web pages if Mozilla requires and Adobe requires :-( Cheers, Steve Ball -- Steve Ball| XSLT Standard Library | Training & Seminars Zveno Pty Ltd | Web Tcl Complete | XML XSL Schemas http://www.zveno.com/ | TclXML TclDOM| Tcl, Web Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+- Ph. +61 2 6242 4099 | Mobile (0413) 594 462 | Fax +61 2 6242 4099
Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: SVG in HTML output, XSLT stylesheets
Dave Pawson wrote: > I had occasion today to include an SVG diagram in HTML output. > Is this a rare beast? Not at all! Almost all of the images and diagrams we use in our course materials are SVG. We'll soon be exposing more SVG content (not necessarily images) on the website. Of course, the user's browser must support SVG. Adobe's SVG viewer plugin is popular, and Mozilla is developing native support. > Perhaps suggest for inclusion in mediaobject? I treat them exactly the same way as images, ie. use imageobject inside a mediaobject. I note that DocBook 4.1.2+ has provision for SVG. Cheers, Steve Ball -- Steve Ball| XSLT Standard Library | Training & Seminars Zveno Pty Ltd | Web Tcl Complete | XML XSL Schemas http://www.zveno.com/ | TclXML TclDOM| Tcl, Web Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+- Ph. +61 2 6242 4099 | Mobile (0413) 594 462 | Fax +61 2 6242 4099
Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Looking for "swc"
Bernd Kreimeier wrote:
> I need an SGML/XML-aware version of wc to count words, lines, etc.
> directly onm SGML source. I used some db2txt right now, is there a
> a direct way to do this (in the way of sgrep)?
I wrote 'xmlwc' (attached) as an example program for TclXML.
Takes the same command line parameters as the Unix wc
command.
To run it you'll need ActiveState Tcl -
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActiveTcl/
HTHs,
Steve Ball
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#!/bin/sh
# \
exec tclsh8.3 "$0" "$@"
package require xml
set bytes 0
set chars 0
set words 0
set lines 0
proc cdata {data args} {
global bytes chars words lines
incr bytes [string bytelength $data]
incr chars [string length $data]
incr lines [regsub -all \n $data {} discard]
regsub -all "\[ \t\r\n\]+" [string trim $data] { } data
incr words [regsub -all { } $data {} discard]
return {}
}
set format {%1$7d%2$8d%3$8d %5$10s}
set input {}
foreach opt $argv {
switch -- $opt {
--bytes {
set format {%4$7d}
}
-c -
--chars {
set format {%3$7d}
}
-w -
--words {
set format {%2$7d}
}
-l -
--lines {
set format {%1$7d}
}
-h -
--help {
puts stderr "$argv0 \[-clw\] \[--bytes\] \[--chars\] \[--words\]
\[--lines\] \[--help\] \[--version\] \[file...\]"
puts stderr "Counts number of bytes, characters, words and lines in an XML
document"
}
--version {
puts stderr "xmlwc version 1.0"
}
default {
lappend input $opt
}
}
}
if {![llength $input]} {
set p [xml::parser -characterdatacommand cdata]
if {[catch {$p parse [read stdin]} err]} {
puts stderr $err
exit 1
}
} else {
foreach in $input {
if {[catch {open $in} ch]} {
puts stderr "unable to open file \"$in\""
exit 1
}
set p [xml::parser -characterdatacommand cdata]
if {[catch {$p parse [read $ch]} err]} {
puts stderr $err
exit 1
}
catch {close $ch}
}
}
puts [format $format $lines $words $chars $bytes $input]
exit 0
