Hi Bob,
Yes,what I am trying to style further is the generated html which is the
output of DocBook XSL.
Sanjaya.
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Bob Stayton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Sanjaya,
> OK, can you clarify where you are applying the CSS? Is it your intention
> to style the XML source directly using CSS, or to use CSS to style the HTML
> output from DocBook XSL? When you say "further styled", I presume you mean
> the HTML.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> [email protected]
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Sanjaya Liyanage <[email protected]>
> *To:* Bob Stayton <[email protected]>
> *Cc:* Docbook Apps <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 20, 2011 9:24 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [docbook-apps] Does dockbook.xsl covers the whole?
>
> Hi Bob,
> Thank you for the reply.Yes it is true that almost every docbook
> element has been styled by docbook XSL.But my this effort is to style them
> more using css.I feel that most of the docbook elements can further be
> styled so that the output of docbook will be a more clear and nice one.As an
> examples
>
> - <title> elements in different classes can further be styled
>
>
> - we can style <title> and <subtitle> in different ways to show their
> difference
>
>
> - <sec1>,<sec2>,<sec3>,etc.. can be further styled
> - <caption> element can be styled differently
> - <code> elements can be further styled as well.
>
> I have not tested many docbook XMLs.I think there can be more elements that
> can be styled further.
>
> Thank you
> Sanjaya
>
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:21 AM, Bob Stayton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm not sure how useful this exercise is. I will put forth the
>> proposition that all DocBook elements except some metadata elements in info
>> are already styled by DocBook XSL. Metadata elements are not automatically
>> styled because metadata is used for different purposes by different people.
>> Any elements outside of info that are not styled should be in the list of
>> bug reports on the DocBook SourceForge site. At the moment, I don't think
>> there are any reports of that nature.
>>
>> Also, the DocBook XSL stylesheets already have a template that flags any
>> elements that it encounters for which it otherwise has no template. See the
>> template in fo/docbook.xsl starting with:
>>
>> <xsl:template match="*">
>> ...
>>
>> That template will be applied by the XSLT processor when no other template
>> matches an element in the document. It issues an error message and inserts a
>> copy of the element tags in red in the output.
>>
>> Have you seen any DocBook elements that are not styled?
>>
>> Bob Stayton
>> Sagehill Enterprises
>> [email protected]
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* Sanjaya Liyanage <[email protected]>
>> *To:* Docbook Apps <[email protected]>
>> *Sent:* Friday, February 18, 2011 9:02 PM
>> *Subject:* [docbook-apps] Does dockbook.xsl covers the whole?
>>
>> Hi dev,
>> I am trying to find the elements of docbook xmls which haven't styled
>> by including docbbok.xsl in my test.xsl.Does it enough to see any kind of
>> styling for any kind of element in the xml or are there any other xsl files
>> that I must include to see different kind of styling for any other
>> element?Also where can I find some sample docbook xmls which include most of
>> possible elements in it?Thank you very much.
>>
>> Sanjaya Liyanage
>>
>>
>
