Hi Gihan, I happy to hear that my tutorials (vogella) were helpful.
Good luck with your project. Best regards, Lars 2012/3/21 gihan karunarathne <gckarunarat...@gmail.com> > Hi David, Hi mentors : > > Thank you very much David again for your interesting towards this project > idea and help me to get through this. > > Some are more worked up than others, but >> you're free to change based on your interests, feedback, community >> interest, and so on. >> > I will track on the feedback and other helps which are really help me to > get through the process. > But I keep focus on learning XSLT and XSL with the hope of contribute to > the DocBook projects. > So, I followed some tutorials of vogella [1] [2]. Those are really help me > to sharpen my understanding about technologies. Also I following some > complete guide tutorials [3]. > >> >> In the case of building an apk from DocBook, much of the source for >> the apk will be generated from DocBook at build time. > > I don't understand this point clearly. Can you explain it further, David? > > I would look around for some .apk books and see how close the html and >> other >> internal resources are to .epub. If a .apk book is very close to >> .epub, then it should be a pretty easy task to turn the .epub you >> currently get from DocBook into a .apk file. > > I don't know about the idea of .apk is going to implement from the scratch > or in top of the DocBook. In case, it can implement like .epub built with > the help of XHTML then it will be a easy task. > > I can build it by studying .apk from its basic [4]. Or try with some > alternative method which will get the external dependencies support and get > the job done. As an example, I found that "AIR application for Android > with the Flex SDK" [5] is doing such kind of alternative. According to my > understanding with my experience about Android by roughly go through this > web page, they are simply creating a Android source and manifest.xml file > to configure Android settings. It also ask for java class which is similar > to Activity class in Android and use Android SDK to build .apk. > According to my idea, we can generate those manifest.xml and other java > class which help to build GUI in the Android by using XSLT transformation. > Then use Android SDK to compile and build .apk by configure dependencies in > Ant script. > Other way, we can use from the beginning method to build .apk by using > XSLT transformation. If I have misunderstanding or some wrong idea with > regarding this, please correct me. > >> Then If that's the case, you >> >> would want to find other stuff to add to the proposal so you have >> enough to do over the summer. >> > I will seek for another output format during this period. > >> >> We should also ask the other mentors if any are interested in this >> project and what their thoughts are. I'm hoping they'll chime in. >> > Yes David. I also very appreciate if a mentor can help to me through out > this project idea. We will wait until some one help us. > I also think, this is a critical point with regarding where should I > heading. If I tried to follow any difficult method to implement this idea, > I'm wasting my time. > So, any thoughts about this idea are highly valuable and appreciate for me. > > Thank you in Advance !. > > [1]. http://www.vogella.de/articles/DocBook/article.html#epub > [2]. http://www.vogella.de/articles/XSLT/article.html > [3]. http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/ > [4]. http://forum.sdx-developers.com/index.php?topic=3472.0 > [5]. > http://help.adobe.com/en_US/air/build/WS901d38e593cd1bac25d3d8c712b2d86751e-8000.html > > > -- > Regards > > Gihan Chanuka Karunarathne > Department of Computer Science and Engineering > > University of Moratuwa > Sri Lanka > > > Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/gihanchanuka > LinkedIn: http://lk.linkedin.com/pub/gihan-karunarathne/25/ba3/993 > > > -- Lars http://www.vogella.de - Eclipse, Android and Java Tutorials http://www.twitter.com/vogella - Lars on Twitter
