Thanks for this detailed answer, I will look into the assembler issues. *NeoDoc* *Camille Bégnis* [email protected] Tél: +33 (0)4.42.52.24.20 5, rue de la Touloubre 13770 Venelles France http://www.neodoc.fr/ Le 19/08/2014 10:06, Hussein Shafie a écrit : > On 08/19/2014 09:17 AM, Camille Bégnis wrote: >> >> with DocBook 5.1 in the final leap of formal approval by OASIS, what are >> your plans for adding support for it into XXE? >> > > We are committed to fully support DocBook 5.1 in XXE. However we don't > feel there is any rush to implement this support and this, for the two > following reasons: > > 1) We don't think that much XML authors are impatient to use DocBook > 5.1 in XXE. (Anyway, this kind of person, eager to use ``bleeding edge > technologies'', are likely to purchase oXygen, not XXE.) > > 2) Having implemented DITA support, we know what editing facilities to > add to XXE in order to support DocBook 5.1. However, converting > DocBook 5.1 to other formats still poses us a problem: > > The ``assembler'' (docbook-xsl-ns-1.78.1/assembly/assemble.xsl) which > compiles the topics specified in a DocBook 5.1 assembly in order to > generate a monolithic DocBook document seems to be incomplete (no > relationships, no filterin, no filterout, etc). > > So what should we do: > > (1) Neverthless use assemble.xsl as is? > > (2) Improve existing assemble.xsl? > > (3) Wait for the next release of the DocBook XSL stylesheets, hoping > that assemble.xsl will be made conformant? > > (4) Write in XSLT 2.0 (or in Java) our own, fully conformant, version > of assemble.xsl? > > Possible answers: > > (1) is out of question. > > (2) We did that for the first version of epub/epub.xsl. We submitted > our extensive changes to the DocBook XSL stylesheets dev team, but the > original author of epub.xsl had his own ideas about what to do and > that gave us nothing at all. > > For now, we are more or less expecting (3) to happen. > > Note that if (4) seems to be the only way to go, then we'll do it. > >
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