"Joel de Guzman" > Aleksey Gurtovoy wrote: >> David Abrahams writes: >>> Joel de Guzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>> Is that possible at all with DocBook? If no, then there's no way, I >>>> guess. >>> Another reason we should have our own DOM. >> >> Or adopt/build on DocUtils' one >> (http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/doctree.html). It's sound, >> mature, relatively well-documented, much simplier than DocBook's >> kitchen sink, and yet easily translated into the latter if needed. > > Interesting. But I wonder how this would help the OP's problem? > I'm thinking now that Andy's problem is due to mixing the document > model with the presentation-- a violation of the model-view separation.
Maybe. However I think that docbook can handle conditional output theoretically at least. It has something to do with the <role> tag widget attribute element thing, however the docbook docs is a goldmine of half finished techno babble and the semantics seem to change between versions. Also it appears that the actual output produced is dependent on the what ?client? that is used to transform the xml to html and in some cases the docs say things such as the client is free to ignore X, and in practise that seems to mean it usually does. It all seems like (is it the) chinese whispers game , where gradually as things are pased along the meaning is changed so much that it has nothing to do wit the original I also suspect that it is possible to pass raw html through the system somehow, but I don't have time to investigate. Apologies for my own incoherent babble too. The above is meant to be taken humorously. Overall I like the DocBook scheme, but to acheive any facility with it I dont have time currently unfortunately, so I am resolved to put up with whatever output my current toolchain produces for the moment. If I get banned from Sourceforge I will know who to blame ;-) I hope also to write up my battles with trying to get an image map to work. My current solution is to post-process the HTML output! I also found why it doesnt work in IE6. I will write it up here when i have some time. regards Andy little ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Boost-docs mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe and other administrative requests: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/boost-docs
