Hey, guys, it's only a two hour job to add support for setting an EntityResolver and a URIResolver in FOP's command-line. Today, even FOP itself can use the Commons Resolver to resolve image URIs.
On 05.12.2005 20:55:35 Simon Pepping wrote: > On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 12:42:26PM -0500, Glen Mazza wrote: > > Simon Pepping wrote: > > > > > > > >Another issue I have with FOP and Docbook is that FOP out of the box > > >does not use catalogs. > > > > <ignorance/> I'm unsure what you mean by catalogs. > > See http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/ and > http://xml.apache.org/commons/components/resolver/index.html. It > allows you to have the DTDs, schemas and included stylesheets at > another path than the documents mention as the system identifier or > URL. Catalogs map Public Identifiers (of DTDs) and the starting string > of URLs to actual paths. The Debian XML system is completely based on > it. It is not really easy to set up, but once done, it provides a > robust XML system. > > > >I think we should do something about this. It > > >is unrealistic to expect Docbook users to write their own startup Java > > >file. They want something that works from the command line. > > > > With my job, we use Ant build scripts for online PDF and HTML help > > sites. Our technical writer rather easily works with the build.xml, > > understands its contents pretty well and knows how to modify it when > > needed. (She uses JEdit for editing the XML and to activate the build > > scripts, but I have been thinking of having her try Eclipse because it > > has better CVS functionality.) > > > > IMHO document publishing has too many moving parts to remember > > everything on the command-line. Also, there are many aspects common > > (CSS stylesheets, FOP customization layer overrides, etc.) for > > publishing multiple documents that can be factored out and shared in the > > build script. As a bonus, Ant can also take care of other portions of > > the publishing pipeline, such as FTP'ing the results to the website when > > everything is done. > > That is a rather professional solution. Lacking a good GUI, I would > like to see a simple command be sufficient to print a Docbook article > or book to say PDF. Well, on fop-dev it was just said that FOP's > command line 'fop -xml ... -xsl ... -pdf ...' now works for docbook > files with Xalan 2.7.0. That is a step forward. Still, no catalogs are > used. > > See here for an effort towards a GUI for this kind of task: > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54378. > Unfortunately, the project has been discontinued. Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
