[docbook-apps] Docbook XML to Epub

2021-03-24 Thread Philo Calhoun
"Regarding your first question, if you put a role attribute on a phrase (contents), the value of that role will be carried to the HTML (e.g., contents) You can then apply css normally. Regarding your second question, I’m not so sure what’s the best thing to do, but you might try the same approa

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook-XML, webhelp and no more DTM-Ids available

2014-03-27 Thread Volker Bernhard Duetsch
Just tested and it work's fine. Great. Thank you very much. Best regards Volker On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 00:42:58 +0530 Kasun Gajasinghe wrote: > I just had a look at the build.xml. As you might know, we use two xslt > tasks to get the final webhelp output. First we profile the docbook > document,

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook-XML, webhelp and no more DTM-Ids available

2014-03-26 Thread Kasun Gajasinghe
I just had a look at the build.xml. As you might know, we use two xslt tasks to get the final webhelp output. First we profile the docbook document, and then we do the actual webhelp transformation on that profiled document. It seems that we have missed to set the ${xslt-processor-classpath} as the

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook-XML, webhelp and no more DTM-Ids available

2014-03-26 Thread Volker Bernhard Duetsch
I just processed the both files with Oxygen Editor V15 (Trial - Version). Both files get processed without problems. So it must be my setup. This is the part of my build.properties, but i'm not sure if they are getting used. ... xslt-processor-classpath=d:\\apps\\saxon\\saxon.jar xercesImpl.jar=d

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook-XML, webhelp and no more DTM-Ids available

2014-03-26 Thread David Cramer
On 03/26/2014 04:56 AM, Volker Bernhard Duetsch wrote: > can anyone please test the attached files. I'm not sure if it's the setup > of the machine or the document structure... > > pass.xml -> fine result, everything works as expected > > failed.xml -> won't work. Only one table row

[docbook-apps] DocBook-XML, webhelp and no more DTM-Ids available

2014-03-24 Thread Volker Bernhard Duetsch
Hi, I encounter problems by processing a docbook-xml test file of 11907 lines total 325.050 bytes. If I reduce file size it will be corectly processed... I've read a lot and asked some questions on stackoverflow, but problem still exists. This works fine: "Step 5: Test the package by running the

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook XML as an Output

2011-06-23 Thread Bob Stayton
erprises b...@sagehill.net - Original Message - From: "David Cramer" To: Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 6:26 AM Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook XML as an Output -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/23/2011 08:09 AM, Dermot O'H wrote: I'm stil

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook XML as an Output

2011-06-23 Thread David Cramer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/23/2011 08:09 AM, Dermot O'H wrote: > I'm still looking for a way to resolve processing instructions when running > the profile.xsl template. Anyone? For that you'll have to create a customization layer on top of the profiling xsls and add into

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook XML as an Output

2011-06-23 Thread Dermot O'H
The missing DocBook declaration can be resolved by including the following line in the profile.xsl file (or including it via your customisation layer): http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd"/> I'm still looking for a way to resolve processing instructions when running the profil

[docbook-apps] DocBook XML as an Output

2011-06-22 Thread Dermot O'H
Hi, We maintain our doc alongside our code. When building a project our build system also generates the doc output. Three things impact on the time it takes to generate the docs: 1. The number of guides 2. The number of output formats 3. The number of different profiled versions of each guide

Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook xml title containing double quotation marks causes CHM TOC issue

2010-12-29 Thread Tracy Huang Gmail
mber 29, 2010 9:46 PM Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook xml title containing double quotation marks causes CHM TOC issue On 12/27/2010 08:32 PM, Tracy Huang Gmail wrote: Thank you for the suggestion! I will install and try Saxon 6 later. And enlightened by another user Sarah Cheng, I have wo

Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook xml title containing double quotation marks causes CHM TOC issue

2010-12-29 Thread Christopher R. Maden
On 12/27/2010 08:32 PM, Tracy Huang Gmail wrote: > Thank you for the suggestion! I will install and try Saxon 6 later. > And enlightened by another user Sarah Cheng, I have worked around the > issue by adding the following Escape Characters (“ - left double > quote, ” - right double quote) in the x

Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook xml title containing double quotation marks causes CHM TOC issue

2010-12-27 Thread Tracy Huang Gmail
Regards Tracy - Original Message - From: Bob Stayton To: Tracy Huang Gmail ; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 12:42 PM Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook xml title containing double quotation marks causes CHM TOC issue Hi, Try using

Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook xml title containing double quotation marks causes CHM TOC issue

2010-12-26 Thread Bob Stayton
Hi, Try using Saxon 6 instead of xsltproc. Bob Stayton Sagehill Enterprises b...@sagehill.net - Original Message - From: Tracy Huang Gmail To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 5:26 PM Subject: [docbook-apps] Docbook xml title containing

[docbook-apps] Docbook xml title containing double quotation marks causes CHM TOC issue

2010-12-23 Thread Tracy Huang Gmail
Hi All, When I use double quotation marks ("") to quote a word in the xml element, the generated CHM TOC entry only shows the word qupted, not the complete title. I have the following XML file (please note the quotation marks in the title line: Loading "heavy" window): http://docbook

RE: [docbook-apps] Docbook XML and Catalog

2010-11-13 Thread Mauritz Jeanson
/saxon-help Mauritz | -Original Message- | From: SriKrishnan [mailto:srikrish...@techset.co.uk] | Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 7:31 AM | To: 'Mauritz Jeanson'; 'Dave Pawson' | Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org | Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Docbook XML

RE: [docbook-apps] Docbook XML and Catalog

2010-11-12 Thread SriKrishnan
SriKrishnan' Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Docbook XML and Catalog | -Original Message- | From: Dave Pawson | > | > F:\ADVENT\APP\xslf0_samples\DOCBOOK-samples\completed>java -cp | > "C:/saxon/saxon.jar;C:/docbook-xsl-1.76.1-RC

Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook XML and Catalog

2010-11-12 Thread Dave Pawson
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:51:34 +0100 "Mauritz Jeanson" wrote: > | -Original Message- > | From: Dave Pawson > | > > | > F:\ADVENT\APP\xslf0_samples\DOCBOOK-samples\completed>java -cp > | > "C:/saxon/saxon.jar;C:/docbook-xsl-1.76.1-RC2/extensions/ > | > saxon65.jar;C:/xml-commons-reso

RE: [docbook-apps] Docbook XML and Catalog

2010-11-12 Thread Mauritz Jeanson
| -Original Message- | From: Dave Pawson | > | > F:\ADVENT\APP\xslf0_samples\DOCBOOK-samples\completed>java -cp | > "C:/saxon/saxon.jar;C:/docbook-xsl-1.76.1-RC2/extensions/ | > saxon65.jar;C:/xml-commons-resolver-1.2/resolver.jar;C:/fop-1.0/" | > com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet -x org.ap

Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook XML and Catalog

2010-11-11 Thread Dave Pawson
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:52:44 +0530 "SriKrishnan" wrote: > Hi Dave Pawson, > > I am frankly saying I don't know anything about Java, Saxon and FOP. > Now only I am trying to learn these for the purpose of generating PDF > from the XML source. atalog option for saxon? One more thing.You need to

Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook XML and Catalog

2010-11-11 Thread Dave Pawson
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:52:44 +0530 "SriKrishnan" wrote: > Hi Dave Pawson, > > I am frankly saying I don't know anything about Java, Saxon and FOP. > Now only I am trying to learn these for the purpose of generating PDF > from the XML source. > > Now I am reading "DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide

RE: [docbook-apps] Docbook XML and Catalog

2010-11-11 Thread SriKrishnan
quot;XSLT 2.0" Book. In this also I don't found how to configure catalog option for saxon? Thanks, Srikrishnan -Original Message- From: Dave Pawson [mailto:da...@dpawson.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 11:41 PM To: SriKrishnan Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subjec

Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook XML and Catalog

2010-11-11 Thread Dave Pawson
On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:05:05 +0530 "SriKrishnan" wrote: > Hi Dave Pawson, > > As per your suggestion I have downloaded saxon 6.5.5. In this case the > following error appears > > F:\ADVENT\APP\xslf0_samples\DOCBOOK-samples\completed>java -cp > "C:/saxon/saxon.jar;C:/docbook-xsl-1.76.1-RC2/exten

RE: [docbook-apps] Docbook XML and Catalog

2010-11-11 Thread SriKrishnan
cbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook XML and Catalog On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:23:03 +0530 "SriKrishnan" wrote: > Hi Dave Pawson, > > Thanks for your immediate reply. I will keep this in mind always. > > But still there are some errors in the ne

Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook XML and Catalog

2010-11-10 Thread Bob Stayton
- Original Message - From: "SriKrishnan" To: Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 1:53 AM Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Docbook XML and Catalog Hi Dave Pawson, Thanks for your immediate reply. I will keep this in mind always. But still there are some errors in the next steps. C

Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook XML and Catalog

2010-11-10 Thread Dave Pawson
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:23:03 +0530 "SriKrishnan" wrote: > Hi Dave Pawson, > > Thanks for your immediate reply. I will keep this in mind always. > > But still there are some errors in the next steps. Can anybody help > me to solve this? > > It seems that it throws error on docbook.xsl. But I di

RE: [docbook-apps] Docbook XML and Catalog

2010-11-10 Thread SriKrishnan
et() Transformation failed: Run-time errors were reported Thanks, Srikrishnan -Original Message- From: Dave Pawson [mailto:da...@dpawson.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 1:14 PM To: SriKrishnan Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook XML and Catalog

Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook XML and Catalog

2010-11-09 Thread Dave Pawson
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:42:27 +0530 "SriKrishnan" wrote: > Hi Friends, > > > > I am working in Windows XP professional system. > > > > I am trying to convert FO file from Docbook xml using xml catalog. > > > > I have copied Saxon in the following path > "C:\saxonhe9-2-1-5j\saxon9he.jar

[docbook-apps] Docbook XML and Catalog

2010-11-09 Thread SriKrishnan
Hi Friends, I am working in Windows XP professional system. I am trying to convert FO file from Docbook xml using xml catalog. I have copied Saxon in the following path "C:\saxonhe9-2-1-5j\saxon9he.jar" I have copied fop in the following path "C:\fop-1.0\" I have copied "CatalogManage

DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook XML -> texinfo

2002-06-22 Thread Michael Wiedmann
Does anybody have experience using 'docbook2X-0.7.0' to convert DocBook XML documents to Texinfo? My tests with even the simplest article's or book's are disappointing because I get te weirdest errors in at least one of the processing steps. Michael -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-19 Thread Julien Letessier
Looks like many of you use a pure-Java solution. I've been developping a comprehensive, pure-java DocBook processing package for 'normal' users, and the tools I chose are Xalan and Fop (because they're portable). With recent versions of Xalan and the DocBook XSLs I came up with this little compa

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-14 Thread Sven Kitschke
Dave Pawson wrote: > At 23:55 11/04/2002 +0200, Sven Kitschke wrote: > >> For those who are interested - here is another ant build file. > > > Perhaps its not as uncommon as I thought! > Thanks Sven. > >> Surely some tweaking and cleanup is necessary. > > Is it one of those products that you

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-12 Thread Glass, Eric
ROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 1:04 AM To: Sven Kitschke; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java At 23:55 11/04/2002 +0200, Sven Kitschke wrote: >For those who are interested - here is another ant build file. Perhaps its not as uncommon as I thought! Tha

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-11 Thread Dave Pawson
At 23:55 11/04/2002 +0200, Sven Kitschke wrote: >For those who are interested - here is another ant build file. Perhaps its not as uncommon as I thought! Thanks Sven. >Surely some tweaking and cleanup is necessary. Is it one of those products that you keep thinking does more :-) 'Surely it

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-11 Thread Dave Pawson
At 16:24 11/04/2002 -0400, Glass, Eric wrote: >The attached zipfile contains what I am using, and a simple example book. >This assumes you have all the necessary jars in your classpath, ant is set >up, etc.. Thanks Eric, seems like it will do the business! Regards DaveP.

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-11 Thread Eric Richardson
Hi, I've got this distribution called jdocbook which is an integration of ant, java, stylesheets, catalog support etc. I've been pretty reluctant to release it since I didn't really want to support it but if you are interested I could do a limited release to a few people and then see if I wan

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-11 Thread Sven Kitschke
For those who are interested - here is another ant build file. I've used it with saxon, but a generic xslt-processor call is prepared as target (not tested). It produces pdf with fop or passivetex (miktex on win32), chunked and unchunked html, JavaHelp and HtmlHelp files with its customization sty

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-11 Thread Glass, Eric
:07 PM To: Matt Reynolds; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java At 12:56 11/04/2002 -0500, Matt Reynolds wrote: >Ant is pretty much a "Java Make", but that doesn't do it proper >justice. Read http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/intro.htm

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-11 Thread Dave Pawson
At 12:56 11/04/2002 -0500, Matt Reynolds wrote: >Ant is pretty much a "Java Make", but that doesn't do it proper >justice. Read http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/manual/intro.html for the >whole deal. > >As it's written in Java, simply pick your favorite JVM. > >As to it's ability to process DocBoo

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-11 Thread Matt Reynolds
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 11:59, Dave Pawson wrote: > Which is probably about as commercial as Daniel gets > > I'm curious about ant and comparative usage of the processors > so I'd be happy for it to remain on list. > > Is ant the java equivalent of a script file that works on win32 and *nix? > >

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-11 Thread Dave Pawson
At 16:24 10/04/2002 -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > What is XSLTproc? That's vaguely familiar... > > > > Sending private (or even better, a link to a web page) works just as > > well. But this is OK with me :) > > Hehe don't worry I will make a bit of advertizing: > http://xmlsoft.org/X

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-10 Thread Matt Reynolds
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 15:44, Carlos wrote: > If your system supports it I would very much recommend XSLTproc as the XSLT > processor to use. After Using Xalan, Saxon, XT and XSLTproc I've found out > that XSLTproc is a lot faster (maybe because it is written in C) easier to > use and has a quick t

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-10 Thread Carlos
If your system supports it I would very much recommend XSLTproc as the XSLT processor to use. After Using Xalan, Saxon, XT and XSLTproc I've found out that XSLTproc is a lot faster (maybe because it is written in C) easier to use and has a quick turnaround on feature requests and bug fixes. On th

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-10 Thread Gunnar Sigurdsson
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Carlos wrote: > Matt: > > I've used ant with XSLTproc, Xalan and (latest and greatest) with Saxon. The > build.xml file is listed below. Apologies to the list, wasn't sure if I > should send this to the list or privately. Carlos, I am happy you sent it to the list. I was s

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-10 Thread Daniel Veillard
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 03:10:31PM -0500, Matt Reynolds wrote: > On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 14:14, Carlos wrote: > > Matt: > > > > I've used ant with XSLTproc, Xalan and (latest and greatest) with Saxon. The > > build.xml file is listed below. Apologies to the list, wasn't sure if I > > should send th

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-10 Thread Matt Reynolds
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 14:14, Carlos wrote: > Matt: > > I've used ant with XSLTproc, Xalan and (latest and greatest) with Saxon. The > build.xml file is listed below. Apologies to the list, wasn't sure if I > should send this to the list or privately. > > Carlos What is XSLTproc? That's vague

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-10 Thread Matt Reynolds
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 14:03, Michael Cortez wrote: > Although I'm using Saxon, I've found it to be much faster then Xalan. Using > FOP for PDF output, but it's kind of "broken" in a few places (like tables.) I'm not too attached to parsers/processors at the moment, so I'll give anything a shot.

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-10 Thread Carlos
Matt: I've used ant with XSLTproc, Xalan and (latest and greatest) with Saxon. The build.xml file is listed below. Apologies to the list, wasn't sure if I should send this to the list or privately. Carlos -- Begin build.xml file --

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-10 Thread Michael Cortez
>> Regardless, I'm curious to know if anyone else out there is >> using an all Java setup? I am using Java and XML. Although I'm using Saxon, I've found it to be much faster then Xalan. Using FOP for PDF output, but it's kind of "broken" in a few places (like tables.) The only "real" prob

DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook/XML, done with Java

2002-04-10 Thread Matt Reynolds
My apologies if this is the wrong list. I'm new here. Here at work, we've decided to use DocBook for our internal documentation. It appears to do everything we need, and we've started creating many documents already. However, as we have varied levels of expertise, and various platforms to supp

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook-xml

2002-01-14 Thread Juan R. Migoya
i.e: put the xml.dcl before your xml file when running nsgml or jade. Juan R. Migoya SPAIN "E.L. Willighagen" wrote: > Michael Charles Smith wrote: > > > > I'm very new to docbook, and I'm trying to get it set up. Right now we > > have the xml version of the dtd, and I was trying to use jade t

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook-xml

2002-01-14 Thread Rune Enggaard Jensen
Michael Charles Smith wrote: > I'm very new to docbook, and I'm trying to get it set up. Right now we > have the xml version of the dtd, and I was trying to use jade to process > it. When I ran "nsgmls -sv test.doc"(the command it gives to test your > setup of docbook in TDG, I got a whole bun

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook-xml

2002-01-14 Thread E.L. Willighagen
Michael Charles Smith wrote: > > I'm very new to docbook, and I'm trying to get it set up. Right now we > have the xml version of the dtd, and I was trying to use jade to process > it. When I ran "nsgmls -sv test.doc"(the command it gives to test your > setup of docbook in TDG, I got a whole b

DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook-xml

2002-01-14 Thread Michael Charles Smith
I'm very new to docbook, and I'm trying to get it set up. Right now we have the xml version of the dtd, and I was trying to use jade to process it. When I ran "nsgmls -sv test.doc"(the command it gives to test your setup of docbook in TDG, I got a whole bunch of errors, of the form: /docbookx.d

DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook XML on Mac OS X

2002-01-10 Thread Julien Letessier
Hi folks, Happy new year and all the best. In order to use docBook XML on OS X with my team, I've packaged everything needed into an OS X package. In fact's only Xalan and Fop with shell-script wrappers, and is quite straightforward to use. Once installed (everything goes to /Users/Shared/DocBo

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook XML / XSL Problems (attribute tests seemalways true)

2001-11-25 Thread Bob Stayton
> From: Benjamin Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hello, > > I have spent several hourse on the problem I posted before and have > found out that: > > I am not getting chapter, section, figure numbers because the test > for @label will be true even if I have no label attribute in the tag. > > Ex

DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook XML / XSL Problems (attribute tests seem alwaystrue)

2001-11-25 Thread Benjamin Peter
Hello, I have spent several hourse on the problem I posted before and have found out that: I am not getting chapter, section, figure numbers because the test for @label will be true even if I have no label attribute in the tag. Example: a) the xml fragment: My Sample Figure b) the matching

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook XML/XSL - shaded?

2001-08-13 Thread Dan York
Norm, > | In any event, that is why I implemented the shading in the stylesheets > | instead of CSS. There is no dependence on another file (and for that > | matter, there is no dependence on the browser supporting CSS). > > I can take a hint. I checked in some patches yesterday that support >

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook XML/XSL - shaded?

2001-08-08 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Dan York <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | Of course, I suppose another approach would be to put the CSS inside of | the HTML file... That's increasingly what I do. | In any event, that is why I implemented the shading in the stylesheets | instead of CSS. There is no dependence on anoth

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook XML/XSL - shaded?

2001-08-08 Thread k. holwerda
Hi, I must be missing something, but i thought XSLT stylesheets are there to transform to HTML or any other XML alike, why add another stylesheets to do the last part? If docbook was a really high level description of data, but it is not, it is for books in general, and therefore comes close to

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook XML/XSL - shaded?

2001-08-08 Thread Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla
On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 11:04:54AM -0400, Dan York wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:20:38PM -0400, Jon Willeke wrote: > > If you're only concerned about HTML, use a CSS stylesheet. My preference > > is to shade screens, but not programlistings, so I use the following: > > The issue for the L

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook XML/XSL - shaded?

2001-08-07 Thread Phillip Shelton
> -Original Message- > From: Dan York [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > The issue for the LDP is that people very often download an HTML page > (typically a version of a HOWTO document) and save it for > later viewing. > We know that from user comments. While I, too, would prefer a CSS > s

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook XML -> PDF Tool

2001-08-07 Thread Jirka Kosek
Jeff Rancier wrote: > I have a DocBook book written in XML (V4.1.2 of the DocBookx DTD) and want > convert it to PDF. Is there a tool which will accomplish this? There are many options. For all of them you will need DocBook stylesheets available from http://docbook.sourceforge.net 1. You can u

DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook XML -> PDF Tool

2001-08-07 Thread Jeff Rancier
Hello, I have a DocBook book written in XML (V4.1.2 of the DocBookx DTD) and want convert it to PDF. Is there a tool which will accomplish this? Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word "unsubscr

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook XML/XSL - shaded?

2001-08-07 Thread Dan York
On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 01:20:38PM -0400, Jon Willeke wrote: > If you're only concerned about HTML, use a CSS stylesheet. My preference > is to shade screens, but not programlistings, so I use the following: The issue for the LDP is that people very often download an HTML page (typically a vers

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook XML - including files

2001-08-02 Thread Eric Richardson
Yann Dirson wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:22:56PM -0700, Bob Stayton wrote: > > This issue of a single DOCTYPE comes up again when you try > > to edit the modular files (the system entities). I would > > prefer to use a validating editor that loads the DTD when > > editing a modular file.

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook XML - including files

2001-08-02 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:22:56PM -0700, Bob Stayton wrote: > This issue of a single DOCTYPE comes up again when you try > to edit the modular files (the system entities). I would > prefer to use a validating editor that loads the DTD when > editing a modular file. But I can't hsve a DOCTYPE > d

DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook XML/XSL - shaded?

2001-08-01 Thread Ship, Howard
I'm switching over from SGML/DSSSL/Jade to XML/XSL/Xalan. I've got most things working OK except I can't find a parameter like %shaded-verbatim% to make my program listings display with the nice grey background. Is there an easy way to do this? Does someone have a modified XSL template that sh

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook XML - including files

2001-08-01 Thread Robert Collins
On 01 Aug 2001 09:58:48 +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 05:22:03PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > > This isn't a docbook-per se question.. > > > > what I'd _like_ to do is to have foo include a set of separate files > > (say oen for each section of the article foo). > > > > H

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook XML - including files

2001-08-01 Thread Bob Stayton
> From: Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:33:52AM -0700, Bob Stayton wrote: > > > > > "docbookx.dtd" [ > > > > > > > > > %foo; > > > ]> > > > &bar; > > > > Could you clarify this solution a bit? 8^) > > If foo.xml is as Robert describes, then I think this will >

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook XML - including files

2001-08-01 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 10:33:52AM -0700, Bob Stayton wrote: > > > "docbookx.dtd" [ > > > > > > %foo; > > ]> > > &bar; > > Could you clarify this solution a bit? 8^) > If foo.xml is as Robert describes, then I think this will > fail. That is, if foo.xml contains declarations > for individua

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook XML - including files

2001-08-01 Thread Bob Stayton
> From: Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 05:22:03PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > > This isn't a docbook-per se question.. > > > > Current I have a root document that has external entity references for a > > bunch of articles: > > > > > "docbookx.dtd" [ > > > > >

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook XML - including files

2001-08-01 Thread Yann Dirson
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 05:22:03PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > This isn't a docbook-per se question.. > > Current I have a root document that has external entity references for a > bunch of articles: > > "docbookx.dtd" [ > > > ]> > > test book > &foo; > &bar; > > > where foo.xml looks s

DOCBOOK-APPS: Docbook XML - including files

2001-08-01 Thread Robert Collins
This isn't a docbook-per se question.. Current I have a root document that has external entity references for a bunch of articles: ]> test book &foo; &bar; where foo.xml looks something like ... what I'd _like_ to do is to have foo include a set of separate files (say oen for each sectio

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs?

2001-07-26 Thread Norman Walsh
/ Gershon L Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: | I don't work for Arbortext. I'm just a satisfied customer. My disclaimer is that I used to work for them, but I'll add that they have pretty good support for print publishing using XSL FOs now, too.

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs?

2001-07-26 Thread Gershon L Joseph
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Jeffrey Franks wrote: > Gershon L Joseph wrote: > > > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > > > > > My belief is that there is no reliable, mature, easy-to-use product to > > > make PDF from Docbook. The nearest might be the Framemaker route, > > > perhaps via DSSSL

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs?

2001-07-26 Thread Jeffrey Franks
Gershon L Joseph wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > > > My belief is that there is no reliable, mature, easy-to-use product to > > make PDF from Docbook. The nearest might be the Framemaker route, > > perhaps via DSSSL, I suspect, but even that is a vale full of tears. > >

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs?

2001-07-25 Thread Gershon L Joseph
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Holger Rauch wrote: > The only problem I've had with this approach is that the ToC page numbers > have NOT been generated and I did NOT find a way to update the ToC in > neither Word nor StarOffice. How do I have to do it, so that the ToC shows > up WITH page numbers? 1. Ope

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs?

2001-07-25 Thread Gershon L Joseph
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > My belief is that there is no reliable, mature, easy-to-use product to > make PDF from Docbook. The nearest might be the Framemaker route, > perhaps via DSSSL, I suspect, but even that is a vale full of tears. > > face it, getting high-quality typeset

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs?

2001-07-25 Thread Nico Morgan
At 08:59 25/07/2001, Holger Rauch wrote: > > > Company colourscheme adjustments before I print... My instinct with > PDF is > > > to output to RTF, clean it up, add page breaks, add a nice cover page etc > > > in Word (I can hear the sharp intake of breath!) and then print to the > > > Acrobat

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs?

2001-07-25 Thread Matthias Gutbier
Title: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs? >The only problem I've had with this approach is that the ToC page numbers >have NOT been generated and I did NOT find a way to update the ToC in >neither Word nor StarOffice. How do I have to do it, so that the ToC

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs?

2001-07-25 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Nik Clayton wrote: > [...] > DSSSL stylesheets plus pdfjadetex. Unless your tables are really > complicated. Ok, but if tables become really complicated, you are lost with DocBook anyway. Substituting a by a may be a solution in a few cases, but doesn't work for all

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs?

2001-07-25 Thread Holger Rauch
Hi! On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Jirka Kosek wrote: > [...] > > Company colourscheme adjustments before I print... My instinct with PDF is > > to output to RTF, clean it up, add page breaks, add a nice cover page etc > > in Word (I can hear the sharp intake of breath!) and then print to the > > Acrobat

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs?

2001-07-25 Thread Sebastian Rahtz
Jeffrey Franks writes: > Can you suggest a solution for a Unix/Linux platform? I have a > table intensive document in DocBook Xml that must get to PDF > somehow. My expectation is that it would look like a real book, > with a real index, and not look ugly. Too vague a specification. what is

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs?

2001-07-25 Thread Sebastian Rahtz
Jeffrey Franks writes: > I realize everyone is doing their best. However, this would be amusing > if there were not so much at stake. caveat emptor. who ever said it was all easy? > Seems applicable to the deplorable situation we face in order to > get high quality PDF from DocBook Xml. dep

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs?

2001-07-24 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 01:48:18PM -0500, Jeffrey Franks wrote: > Can you suggest a solution for a Unix/Linux platform? I have a table > intensive > document in DocBook Xml that must get to PDF somehow. My expectation is > that > it would look like a real book, with a real index, and not look ugly

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs?

2001-07-24 Thread Jeffrey Franks
Jirka Kosek wrote: > > Jeffrey Franks wrote: > > > Can you suggest a solution for a Unix/Linux platform? I have a table > > intensive > > document in DocBook Xml that must get to PDF somehow. My expectation is > > that > > it would look like a real book, with a real index, and not look ugly. >

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs?

2001-07-24 Thread Jeffrey Franks
Jirka Kosek wrote: > > Nico Morgan wrote: > > > Is there an XSL template for RTF output? > > Actually not, but you may use DSSSL stylesheet and Jade to get RTF. > > > Company colourscheme adjustments before I print... My instinct with PDF is > > to output to RTF, clean it up, add page breaks,

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs?

2001-07-24 Thread Jirka Kosek
Nico Morgan wrote: > Is there an XSL template for RTF output? Actually not, but you may use DSSSL stylesheet and Jade to get RTF. > Company colourscheme adjustments before I print... My instinct with PDF is > to output to RTF, clean it up, add page breaks, add a nice cover page etc > in Word (I

DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook xml - paper based outputs?

2001-07-24 Thread Nico Morgan
I am a new convert to Docbook, having discovered it doing a vague Google search for xml single source documentation. I run the technical documentation department for a new software company (in fact, it's just me!). My Holy Grail is a single-source documentation system, but it has to be Windoz

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook XML and MSIE (?!)

2001-05-16 Thread Mark Pilgrim
> It seems that xmlinst is related to MSXML 3 and earlier. > Is there a similar utility for MSXML 4? Well, the MSXML 4 > has the "preview" in the title. > > I am quite new to XML and to the MSXML support. Should I start > with MSXML 3 SP 1? Wow, I'm behind already. I used 3 when it was a "pre

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook XML and MSIE (?!)

2001-05-16 Thread Prikryl,Petr
Is there any experience with using MSXML 4? Mark Pilgrim wrote... > >> [viewing DocBook XML directly in MSIE] > >> > > You can download the new releases of the MSXML-Parser from > > http://msdn.microsoft.com. Note that the parser installs itself > > in a so called side-by-side mode. This mode do

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook XML and MSIE (?!)

2001-05-15 Thread Mark Pilgrim
>> [viewing DocBook XML directly in MSIE] >> > You can download the new releases of the MSXML-Parser from > http://msdn.microsoft.com. Note that the parser installs itself > in a so called side-by-side mode. This mode doesn't replace the > parser within IE. You have to download and install anothe

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook XML and MSIE (?!)

2001-05-07 Thread Ali Saffari
R Signes schrieb: > > Greetings! > > This seems to make sense. After all, it can't be expected, I suppose, > to have a built in stylesheet for every XML application under the sun. > Is there a way to point it to a stylesheet? If so, will that work? > Even if it only speaks CSS, I would imagine

DOCBOOK-APPS: DocBook XML and MSIE (?!)

2001-05-07 Thread R Signes
Greetings! Perhaps this is a naive question, but I've gotten the impression that Microsoft Internet Explorer is fairly capable of parsing XML. When I open a bare xml file with no DOCTYPE, it happily shows it as a formatted tree. If I hand it a DocBook document, however, it complains that it ne