Re: [docbook-apps] Controlling the publishing process - shell scripts, Ant, other tools

2010-08-27 Thread Peter Desjardins
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RE: [docbook-apps] Controlling the publishing process - shell scripts, Ant, other tools

2010-08-26 Thread Skopik Pavel
Hi, I have been using ant for publishing for some time. Typical usage scenarios in my company are these: - publish documentation to webhelp and pdf as part of the application build - publish documentation as an eclipse infocenter plugin (this involves updating working copy from svn, stopping

Re: [docbook-apps] Controlling the publishing process - shell scripts, Ant, other tools

2010-08-26 Thread Dave Pawson
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:55:36 -0400 Peter Desjardins peter.desjardins...@gmail.com wrote: Here are some of the questions I have. Any input will be very helpful. * What are some advantages an Ant-based publishing system has over a shell script system? Clearly Ant is cross-platform, what else?

RE: [docbook-apps] Controlling the publishing process - shell scripts, Ant, other tools

2010-08-26 Thread Cramer, David W (David)
Hi Peter, I also use Ant for our build process and would add a couple of points to those others have made: The xslt task [1] allows you to pass in parameters if they have been specified. This is very convenient since you want to use the default values from the xslts unless you pass in a

RE: [docbook-apps] Controlling the publishing process - shell scripts, Ant, other tools

2010-08-26 Thread Rowland, Larry
We have a fairly complex Ant based system that uses an individual build file for each document that includes a set of build files that have the actual targets for building; this allows us to customize things like file names and destination paths easily. Each document can be processed into a