On 09-Apr-15, at 2:16 AM, Philippe Nobili wrote:
>> --> Why dynamically switch configurations? You'll have very hard
>> times
>> convincing us that this is really needed.
>>
> (note: This is not the need itself , just a possible solution to
> meet the need)
>
> The need is to be able to choose between several typsetting (XSLT
> stylesheets) styles when converting the document to PDF or HTML (our
> main targets). Typesetting styles depend on the audience (most of it
> is achieved using profiling) and on the publishing constraints
> (sometime forced to add specific banners, or fonts, or etc etc).
Why not write your own conversion scripts?
Here's mine (OS X). I call this from a script that presents the file
chooser dialog. There's a fair bit of cruft in there, as I continue
to work on it, but it should give you enough to go on...
#!/bin/bash
JAVA_HOME="/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/
Home"
XEP_HOME="/Applications/XEP"
MYHOME="$PWD/Documentation_Source"
XSL_INCL="$PWD/Docbook_Support/Docbook/inclusions.xsl"
XSL_FO="$PWD/Docbook_Support/Docbook/db5_to_smallcoilbook.xsl"
XSL_TARGETS="$PWD/Docbook_Support/Docbook/docbook-xsl-ns/fo/docbook.xsl"
XML_INPATH="$1"
XML_INFILE="${1##*/}"
XML_XI1="${1%%.xml}".TEMP.1.xml
XML_XI2="${1%%.xml}".TEMP.2.xml
XML_FO="${1%%.xml}".fo
PDF_OUT="${1%%.xml}".pdf
CP="$JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar:\
$XEP_HOME/lib/resolver.jar:\
$XEP_HOME/lib/xercesImpl.jar:\
$XEP_HOME/lib/xep.jar:\
$XEP_HOME/lib/saxon.jar:\
$XEP_HOME/lib/xt.jar:\
$XEP_HOME/lib"
# Process <xsl:copy-of select="document()"/> inclusions
#xsltproc --xinclude -o "$XML_XI1" "$XML_INPATH" "$XML_INPATH"
# Build targets
./make_all_targets.sh
# Process inclusions, making IDs unique and removing passages that
shouldn't be included
xsltproc --xinclude -o "$XML_XI2" "$XSL_INCL" "$XML_INPATH"
# Process using Docbook XSL:FO transformations
xsltproc \
--xinclude \
--stringparam admon.graphics.path "$MYHOME/shared_media/" \
--stringparam target.database.document "$MYHOME/targets/olinkdb.xml" \
--stringparam olink.debug "0" \
-o "$XML_FO" "$XSL_FO" "$XML_XI2"
# Convert to PDF
"$JAVA_HOME/bin/java" -Xms128m -Xmx512m -classpath "$CP" \
"-Dcom.renderx.xep.CONFIG=./Docbook_Support/xep.xml"
com.renderx.xep.XSLDriver \
-fo "$XML_FO" -pdf "$PDF_OUT"
mv -f "$PDF_OUT" ./Final_PDFs/
rm -f "$XML_XI1" "$XML_XI2" "$XML_FO"
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