Re: [docbook-apps] ePub to MOBI conversion

[Jirka Kosek]

On 15.8.2012 18:38, Richard L Hamilton wrote:
> At different times I've used kindlegen and calibre for ePub to MOBI 
> conversion, with varying results, but I've never been 100% happy with the 
> result from either.
> 
> Does anyone on the list have any suggestions as to which of these (or which 
> alternative) is the best choice for conversion when the ePub was generated 
> using the DocBook stylesheets?

Personally I haven't faced many serious problem when I was converting
output of epub3 stylesheet with Calibre. What I did was to adjust
resulting XHTML files prior packing into .epub. I used attached
stylesheet and simple Ant target:

 <!-- Kindleize HTML -->
  <target name="kindleize">
    <xslt style="${home.dir}/kindleize.xsl" force="true"
basedir="${out.dir}" includes="*.xhtml" destdir="${out.dir}/kindle">
      <factory name="net.sf.saxon.TransformerFactoryImpl"/>
      <classpath location="${saxon9.jar}"/>
    </xslt>
  </target>

HTH,

                                Jirka

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet 
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; 
    xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; 
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
    exclude-result-prefixes="h xsl" 
    version="1.0">
    <xsl:output 
                encoding="UTF-8"
                omit-xml-declaration="no"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;!DOCTYPE html></xsl:text>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
    <xsl:copy>
      <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
    </xsl:copy>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="h:li/h:p">
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
    <br/>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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