Anyone with Ant 1.5+ should now be able to build the DocBook XML docs into XHTML by typing 'ant docbook'. The build now degrades properly on Ant 1.3/1.4 without causing it to choke.
To avoid a Catch 22 situation, here's the build requirements/instructions reproduced from the rendered version: Obtain the DocBook XML DTD from http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/docbook/xml/4.2/index.shtml Obtain the XSL stylesheets from http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/docbook/docbook-xsl-1.44.tar.gz Unpack both of these anywhere you like. Edit the DOCTYPE of the file doc/biojava-doc-main.xml to point to your installation of the DocBook XML DTD. The file to reference is docbookx.dtd Edit build.xml to point to the same DTD and to the your installation of the DocBook XSL stylesheets. The file to reference is xhtml/chunk.xsl and you're ready. There are known problems with using certain versions of the DocBook XSL stylesheets in combination with certain XSLT processors. In particular, the version of Xalan shipped with JDK 1.4 is known to be incompatible with DocBook XSL stylesheet versions higher than 1.44. (The latest version at the time of writing is 1.57.0) This appears to due to the stylesheet exposing bugs in Xalan. I currently recommend using version 1.44 but will continue to evaluate new stylesheet releases and revise this advice when appropriate. BTW, the newer chapters are incomplete as they are being worked on. -- - Keith James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bioinformatics programming support - - Pathogen Sequencing Unit, The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK - _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
