Here is the story on using DocBook XSL 1.0 stylesheets with Saxon 9. Any
XSLT 2.0 processor like Saxon 9 has a backwards compatibility mode that
enables it to process XSLT 1.0 stylesheets, and it does a pretty good
job. It works well with fo output, for example.
But the XSLT 1.0 standard did not have a standard document write element
for writing multiple output documents, which is what HTML chunking
needs. Each XSLT 1.0 processor had to implement their own extension
element to do so. Saxon 6 had saxon:output, Xalan had redirect:write,
etc. The DocBook XSL 1.0 stylesheets has a big xsl:choose statement that
figures out which such element is available in the current process and
employs that to write chunks. It is one of the most complex templates
in DocBook XSL.
In XSLT 2.0, there is a standard document write element, the
xsl:result-document element. The chunking stylesheet in XSL 1.0 of
course does not know about XSL 2.0 elements, so it fails to find an
appropriate output element when run with Saxon 9.
There was a good attempt by Jirka Kosek to include that 2.0 element as a
special case in the 1.0 chunking stylesheet. It basically worked, but
not everything worked, so it was never incorporated into the standard
distribution. If you want to try it out, you can find it here:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/201103/msg00123.html
He includes the code and the caveats.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
[email protected]
On 8/11/2017 11:36 AM, Peter Desjardins wrote:
Thanks!
I ran into trouble when I tried generating webhelp, which uses chunked
output. I think the chunked output requires a Saxon extension. I'm
guessing that the Saxon extensions in extensions/saxon65.jar don't
work with Saxon 9 HE.
Peter
On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 1:47 PM, ben.guillon <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, 10 Aug 2017 06:14:04 +0200, Peter Desjardins
<[email protected]> wrote:
Question #2 is: Has anyone had trouble using Saxon9HE with the DocBook
XSLT v1.0 stylesheets? The way the arguments for the later version of
Saxon are structured work much better with Gradle.
(-o:myoutputfile.xml.)
Just my feedback for question 2: As far as I can tell, I've seen no problem
with Saxon9HE and Docbook XSLT 1.0 stylesheets.
Regards,
BG
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