RE: [docbook-apps] EPUB3: how to use base.dir ?

2013-04-11 Thread Kerry, Richard
Not sure if we want break backward compatibility or not. I think the current implementation is confusing. IF we want to do that, then better sooner than later. I would urge against the default = don't work option. If that's what backward-compatibility would give then backward-compatibility

Re: [docbook-apps] Epub and Saxon: DOCTYPE revisited

2013-04-11 Thread Bob Stayton
Hi Dick, Generally, it is the last import that takes precedence, so putting outputset.xsl first would not have an effect. The issue with Saxon 6 is that once the xsl:output doctype attribute values are set to some nonblank value, they cannot be unset to blank by a later import. As long as

Re: [docbook-apps] Epub and Saxon: DOCTYPE revisited

2013-04-11 Thread Richard Hamilton
Hi Bob, Thanks for the information. That explains what was going on, though it seems more like a Saxon 6 bug than a quirk:-). I had thought that I was through with epub2, but it turns out that there are some distributors out there who still only accept epub2, even if your epub3 doesn't do

Re: [docbook-apps] EPUB3: how to use base.dir ?

2013-04-11 Thread Bob Stayton
I figured out a better way to handle this. The HTML stylesheets already have an internal variable named 'chunk.base.dir' that actually used for chunking. It originally ensured that the base.dir value had a trailing slash. I've modified it for epub3 to append the value of $epub.oebps.dir,