Re: DOCBOOK: converting to docbook

2002-08-13 Thread Georges Schmitz
Pradeep Padala wrote: I also wrote a patch to tidy which does the conversion of html to docbook. Details here. http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ppadala/tidy Let me know, if you need help on this. I have successfully used it on HTML documents submitted to TLDP. Were you ever successful

Re: DOCBOOK: alphabetical list of docbook 4.2 elements anywhere?

2002-08-14 Thread Georges Schmitz
Dave Pawson wrote: At 08:00 13/08/2002, you wrote: member is missing in Lists Mmmm. No its not (one view). The 'Lists' is a list of 'types' of lists, not a list of what children are available? Its to answer the question, I want to insert a list, what type of lists are there

Re: DOCBOOK: converting to docbook

2002-08-14 Thread Georges Schmitz
Pradeep Padala wrote: This is the config file you can use to indent the docbook documents properly. It's actually written by Ismael who tested my work. It's a dirty hack but works. You don't need the -latin1 option he mentioned, if your documents contain plain english. It looks pretty the

Re: DOCBOOK: alphabetical list of docbook 4.2 elements anywhere?

2002-08-15 Thread Georges Schmitz
Dave Pawson wrote: At 01:59 14/08/2002, you wrote: c) after detecting that member is missing, I controlled its half-brothers: varlistentry, term and seglistitem are missing too in the refcards Question. When using docbook, is it the 'main' elements that require most thought, or

[docbook] changelog of SW releases

2007-05-03 Thread Georges Schmitz
Hi, which markup should be used to describe the changelog of software releases? revhistory and releaseinfo are intended for document revisions. Should I misuse revhistory and put the changelog in there? Or is there any better approach? Thanks for suggestions, Georges

DOCBOOK-APPS: Bug in FO with revhistory in qandaentry

2003-02-26 Thread georges schmitz
Hi, it seems there is a bug in the fo stylesheets. I maintain a FAQ where I use revhistory in qandaentry (for reasons of a possible later rendering automatism to mark the entries with new or changed ...). As far as I could analyze the problem, the FAQ entries are rendered as fo:list-block and

DOCBOOK-APPS: Literate Programming (first steps with litprog1.0)

2003-03-03 Thread Georges Schmitz
Hi Norm, I like your advance on Literate Programming and see some personal application cases. But there are some points (conceptual uncertainties from my side included), that prevent me from making full use of it. I'll make a loose enumeration: * I'm writing documentation for a DB-model that

Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook 5, xinclude and xpointer

2008-06-16 Thread Georges Schmitz
xpointer specification came never to a clear final status. XXE itself uses an enhanced xp parser to handle xpointer and the only other tool I know of that is able to handle xpointer to this extend is xmllint/xsltproc. So I let xsltproc/xmllint do the job of preprocessing the main file for

[docbook-apps] relative paths in HTML generation with xinclude and figures

2010-05-11 Thread Georges Schmitz
We work with a modular structure and are reusing content many times. /doc |_ /app | | chapter1.xml ... | | tb-audit-icon-overview-tree.xml | |_ /images | |_ /icons | |_ /oas | | book.xml | | intro.xml | | chapter1.xml ... | | ax-icon-overview.xml | |_