RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Newbie troubles with Docbook/XML + XHTML

2002-05-03 Thread Jeff Beal
!-- this will give you the doctype on your chunks -- Unfortunately, the xsl:output element does not control the output through the chunking facility. If you look in the file chunker.xsl in the XHTML, you'll see two templates: write.chunk and write.chunk.with.doctype. The template

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Notes on graphics and HTML

2002-05-03 Thread Ed Nixon
Notes below: At 02:44 PM 02/05/2002 -0500, Paul Grosso wrote: At 12:41 2002 05 01 -0700, Norman Walsh wrote: snip 1. If only the content-area is specified, everything is fine. (If you ask for a three inch image, that's what you'll get.) Yep (as long as the XSL-HTML

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Notes on graphics and HTML

2002-05-03 Thread Paul Grosso
Norm and I discussed this some more off line and we clarified several things for each other. Some more comments embedded. At 08:39 2002 05 03 -0400, Ed Nixon wrote: Notes below: At 02:44 PM 02/05/2002 -0500, Paul Grosso wrote: At 12:41 2002 05 01 -0700, Norman Walsh wrote: snip 1. If

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: D'oh!

2002-05-03 Thread Dennis Grace
Michael Crawford posts: Answered my own question before I could post. Whenever I ran jade on my DocBook XML document it would hit the net to retrieve my DTD. I couldn't work with it with an unconnected laptop in a cafe, so I hardwired in the pathname of the DTD as the system identifier.

DOCBOOK-APPS: Article about DocBook editing in KDE 3.0's Kate

2002-05-03 Thread E.L. Willighagen
Hi all, A quick write up by me is published in LinuxFocus.org about editing DocBook XML documents in KDE 3.0's Kate, using the XML plugin. It is by far as powerfull as the Docbook mode for Emacs, but is still works very nice. The plugin supports autoaddition of end tags and DTD-aware insertion

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Notes on graphics and HTML

2002-05-03 Thread Ed Nixon
At 08:47 AM 03/05/2002 -0500, Paul Grosso wrote: Norm and I discussed this some more off line and we clarified several things for each other. Mmmm... Some more comments embedded. snip I don't see how this could work given the variability of pixels/inch in screen resolutions and settings.

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Notes on graphics and HTML

2002-05-03 Thread Paul Grosso
At 11:15 2002 05 03 -0400, Ed Nixon wrote: At 08:47 AM 03/05/2002 -0500, Paul Grosso wrote: The short answer is that, in general, pixels don't work. They are terrible things to use when specifying style. However, the HTML language and browsers don't give you much of a choice. Don't understand

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Newbie troubles with Docbook/XML + XHTML

2002-05-03 Thread John Levon
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:32:54AM -0400, Jeff Beal wrote: However, you can write a customization template to handle this (note that I didn't get the XHTML DOCTYPE - I'm too lazy to look it up, and I don't have it memorized) Works a treat, thanks /very/ much. Now the only problem I have left

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Newbie troubles with Docbook/XML + XHTML

2002-05-03 Thread John Levon
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 05:11:37PM +0100, John Levon wrote: However, you can write a customization template to handle this (note that I didn't get the XHTML DOCTYPE - I'm too lazy to look it up, and I don't have it memorized) Works a treat, thanks /very/ much. Now the only problem I

DOCBOOK-APPS: Onechunk problem

2002-05-03 Thread Dennis Grace
Greetings, all I've been using the docbook-xsl-1.50.0/html/onechunk.xsl without problems on articles, but when I tried to apply it to a book, I got the following error for every chapter in the book: Error chapter is not a chunk! Writing for chapter runtime error: file

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Notes on graphics and HTML

2002-05-03 Thread Ed Nixon
At 10:43 AM 03/05/2002 -0500, Paul Grosso wrote: snip if I'm not mistaken these values will override any values I may choose to establish in my customized external CSS; if that is the case then you are taking away my ability and that of the end user to customize at view time in favour of

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Onechunk problem

2002-05-03 Thread Bob Stayton
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 11:33:47AM -0500, Dennis Grace wrote: Greetings, all I've been using the docbook-xsl-1.50.0/html/onechunk.xsl without problems on articles, but when I tried to apply it to a book, I got the following error for every chapter in the book: Error chapter is

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Newbie troubles with Docbook/XML + XHTML

2002-05-03 Thread Bob Stayton
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 05:11:37PM +0100, John Levon wrote: On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:32:54AM -0400, Jeff Beal wrote: However, you can write a customization template to handle this (note that I didn't get the XHTML DOCTYPE - I'm too lazy to look it up, and I don't have it memorized)

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Newbie troubles with Docbook/XML + XHTML

2002-05-03 Thread David Cramer
Add:xsl:with-param name=indent select='yes'/ to Jeff's example: !-- This adds the XHTML DOCTYPE declaration-- xsl:call-template name=write.chunk.with.doctype xsl:with-param name=filename select=$filename/ xsl:with-param name=indent select='yes'/ xsl:with-param

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Onechunk problem

2002-05-03 Thread Dennis Grace
About my error message: Error chapter is not a chunk! Writing for chapter runtime error: file /usr/share/sgml/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.50.0/html/chunker.xsl line 79 element document xsltDocumentElem: URL computation failed for Bob Stayton says: I just started

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: ant, resolver and catalogs

2002-05-03 Thread Eric Richardson
Dave Pawson wrote: I've posted a new page, describing ant and . I'd appreciate comments/improvements from 'seasoned' resolver class users if you have the time please. http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/ant.html Hi Dave, It's nice the integration of website as well although I haven't

DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook and Cocoon

2002-05-03 Thread Michael Cortez
Has anyone been able to get Cocoon to process DocBook, books with the 1.50 Stylesheets? I've been fighting with this for the last couple of days, and I can get Cocoon to process DocBook articles w/o any problems, but not DocBook books... I suspect this is probably a problem with Cocoon, so I've

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook and Cocoon

2002-05-03 Thread Jirka Kosek
Michael Cortez wrote: Has anyone been able to get Cocoon to process DocBook, books with the 1.50 Stylesheets? I've been fighting with this for the last couple of days, and I can get Cocoon to process DocBook articles w/o any problems, but not DocBook books... Problem might by in Xalan.

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook and Cocoon

2002-05-03 Thread Michael Cortez
Problem might by in Xalan. This is processor which is used by default in Cocoon and Xalan has some serious problems with some of DocBook stylesheets. That was one of my suspects -- does XT do any better? I've some documentation on switching out from Xalan to XT. Normally I use Saxon but

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook and Cocoon

2002-05-03 Thread Jirka Kosek
Michael Cortez wrote: Problem might by in Xalan. This is processor which is used by default in Cocoon and Xalan has some serious problems with some of DocBook stylesheets. That was one of my suspects -- does XT do any better? I've some documentation on switching out from Xalan to XT.

DOCBOOK-APPS: Newbie Question about Bibliomixed Entry

2002-05-03 Thread Elliott Branch
Title: Newbie Question about Bibliomixed Entry I work for a small company that does training and consulting on management issues for the Federal government. We are experimenting with DocBook as a way of reusing training content. I am trying build a bibliography for some training material

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Newbie Question about Bibliomixed Entry

2002-05-03 Thread Jirka Kosek
Elliott Branch wrote: bibliomixed bibliomset relation=article surnameWalsh/surname, firstnameNorman/firstname. title role=articleIntroduction to Cascading Style Sheets/title. /bibliomset bibliomset relation=journal titleThe World Wide Web Journal/title

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Newbie Question about Bibliomixed Entry

2002-05-03 Thread Jirka Kosek
Elliott Branch wrote: Thanks! It never occurred to me that you would split a single bibliographic entry between two bibliomset elements. I see now that I was reading the structure wrong. From your answer I infer that a single bibliomixed is roughly equivalent to a biblioentry. Difference

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook and Cocoon

2002-05-03 Thread Carlos
Michael: 7.0 and 7.1 are experimental releases. In order to use saxon:output the stylesheet has to have a version number different than 1.0. For compatibility's saxe I would stick to 6.5 Carlos On 05/03/02 14:24, Michael Cortez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not entirely sure Tomcat Cocoon

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook and Cocoon

2002-05-03 Thread Michael Cortez
7.0 and 7.1 are experimental releases. In order to use saxon:output the stylesheet has to have a version number different than 1.0. For compatibility's saxe I would stick to 6.5 Running with 6.5.1 I appear to be having Localization problems now 8-( Lots of: