Thanks Dan. I checked it out and only had minor problems with some xsl tranforms. I have a somewhat dated version of XMLSpy on my Windows desktop and it worked well enough to transform the samples with ease (open file > assign XSL...). I haven't looked recently to see what open source XML editors are available for the Windows environment, but I know folks around here have used XMLSpy & Oxygen Editor (the later has some reasonable academic/non-profit pricing).
The only minor problem I had was my editor defaulted to IE for parsing in "browser" / view mode, so a few of stylesheets I tried choked with IE (probably fixable with some tweaks to the browser options, etc.). George Duimovich NRCan Library / Bibliothèque RNCan On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Dan Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been playing a little bit with DocBook 5 XML and using XInclude > to compose a document from multiple files, and committed changes to > the sample documents at > http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/browser/trunk/docs/ to demonstrate > that experiment. > > To try it out yourself: > > 1. Download the "docbook-xsl-ns" stylesheets from > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21935#files > 2. Download the sample files from > http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/browser/trunk/docs/ > 3. Use the xsltproc utility (part of the xsltproc package on Debian > and Ubuntu) to process the document using your preferred stylesheet; > in my case, the stylesheets have been unzipped into > /home/dan/docbook-xsl-ns-1.74.0 directory. You have to pass the > --xinclude parameter to force xsltproc to include XInclude'd files; on > my system, the command to process the whole sample manual is as > follows: > > xsltproc --xinclude /home/dan/docbook-xsl-ns-1.74.0/xhtml/onechunk.xsl > index.xml > > (This automatically generates a single HTML file named "index.html"). > > If you are using Windows, installing an XSLT processor is > unfortunately not a simple process. The Cygwin utilities > (http://www.cygwin.com) offer a freely downloadable compiled version > of xsltproc, but the install and use process is a bit painful. There > are also various Java-based tools that are available, but that seem to > require annoying amounts of environment variables to be set to get > things working properly. > > -- > Dan Scott > Laurentian University > _______________________________________________ > OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION mailing list > [email protected] > http://list.georgialibraries.org/mailman/listinfo/open-ils-documentation >
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