Hi, On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Eric Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m interested in generating ePub books from my DocBook 5.0 source and was > wondering what steps I need to take. > > I tried just running the XML through the ePub stylesheet and zipping up the > results which mostly works. The resulting book opens in Stanza for iPhone, > but not Stanza desktop. The desktop version generates a namespace error. The > book also fails the on-line ePub validator. > > Is there some customization I need to do? Do I need to also run the Ruby > stuff to package the book correctly?
You do need to use some other program to invoke the stylesheets. The README in epub/README (https://docbook.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/docbook/trunk/xsl/epub/README) describes how to use the included Ruby command: $ dbtoepub --help Usage: dbtoepub [OPTIONS] [DocBook Files] dbtoepub converts DocBook <book> and <article>s into to .epub files. .epub is defined by the IDPF at www.idpf.org and is made up of 3 standards: - Open Publication Structure (OPS) - Open Packaging Format (OPF) - Open Container Format (OCF) Specific options: -d, --debug Show debugging output. -h, --help Display usage info -v, --verbose Make output verbose You may also be interested in other tools for invoking the stylesheets, like Liza Daly's Python program docbook2epub: http://code.google.com/p/epub-tools/ Keith --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
