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Posted to dev@forrest.apache.org by Carles Canellas <cc...@yahoo.es> on 2002/11/04 11:06:31 UTC
Docbook in forrest (was RE:Uber Document Splitting)
I know there was a discussion about using docbook in
forrest or not. The resolution was not using it.
But there's a need for some people to use docbook
without losing the information that a translation via
XSLT to the forrest's dtd will produce.
My solution was, in my skin, to change the xslt
stylesheets to use docbook instead of the forrest
dtd's. It implied some changes in the sitemap too, in
some library stylesheets, in the ant to allow own
defined library override the default ones, and also in
the css to reflex the way the docbook elements I want
to appear.
I can give a summary of changes, in order to create a
document "using other xml-doc in Forrest".
I think that Forrest will improve with a xml-source
independence, putting in the hands of the user to
decide the use of the dtd gived by default or the one
preferred, for example docbook.
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Carles Canellas.
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Re: Docbook in forrest (was RE:Uber Document Splitting)
Posted by Steven Noels <st...@outerthought.org>.
Carles Canellas wrote:
> I think that Forrest will improve with a xml-source
> independence, putting in the hands of the user to
> decide the use of the dtd gived by default or the one
> preferred, for example docbook.
In order to do this in a manageable way, I'd prefer to stick with the
two-step view idea instead of doing direct authoring grammar->rendition
format conversion.
What I would like to work on after the Cocoon GetTogether is making sure
we have a stabilized mid-tier format (doc-v11++ I was thinking), and
stylesheets doing the authoringformat->midtier-format and
midtier-format->XHTML.
And using CAP pipelines to select the correct processing, so that it
becomes transparent to the document author
(http://xml.apache.org/forrest/cap.html).
</Steven>
--
Steven Noels http://outerthought.org/
Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center
stevenn@outerthought.org stevenn@apache.org
Re: Docbook in forrest (was RE:Uber Document Splitting)
Posted by Jeff Turner <je...@apache.org>.
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:06:31AM +0100, Carles Canellas wrote:
> I know there was a discussion about using docbook in
> forrest or not. The resolution was not using it.
>
> But there's a need for some people to use docbook
> without losing the information that a translation via
> XSLT to the forrest's dtd will produce.
>
> My solution was, in my skin, to change the xslt
> stylesheets to use docbook instead of the forrest
> dtd's. It implied some changes in the sitemap too, in
> some library stylesheets, in the ant to allow own
> defined library override the default ones, and also in
> the css to reflex the way the docbook elements I want
> to appear.
>
> I can give a summary of changes, in order to create a
> document "using other xml-doc in Forrest".
Yes please, that sounds useful. Forrest should certainly be flexible
enough to allow the use of Docbook.
> I think that Forrest will improve with a xml-source
> independence, putting in the hands of the user to
> decide the use of the dtd gived by default or the one
> preferred, for example docbook.
+1
--Jeff
> =====
> Carles Canellas.
> VicerTec S.L.