[docbook-apps] Re: [docbook] future of DocBook XML Schema (XSD)?

2016-10-18 Thread Steve Ball
+Schematron would be fine with me. Cheers, Steve Ball > On 19 Oct 2016, at 5:51 AM, Bob Stayton <b...@sagehill.net> wrote: > > The DocBook Technical Committee is considering dropping the XML Schema > version of DocBook in a future version 6. We would like to hear from any > m

Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook to docx

2016-04-05 Thread Steve Ball
, but you can supply your own. If you’re just looking for a one-way conversion, then that would be a good place to start. Cheers, Steve Ball > On 6 Apr 2016, at 5:55 AM, Fredrik Unger <f...@tree.se> wrote: > > Dear all, > > I have been trying for a while to generate a Word 2

Re: [docbook-apps] Google Summer of Code 2015 -- Last call for participants

2015-02-10 Thread Steve Ball
Hi All, My current project is to implement the DocBook roundtripping subsystem in a Web browser, using Saxon-CE. However, I feel it needs to be more advanced before getting a student to work on it. Happy to be convinced otherwise… Cheers, Steve Ball On 10 Feb 2015, at 8:32 am, Richard

Re: [docbook-apps] Status of wordml stylesheet in Google Summer Of Code

2012-07-10 Thread Steve Ball
milestone. Cheers, Steve Ball On 11/07/2012, at 6:31 AM, Benjamin de Dardel wrote: Hi all, I currently test docbook to wordml processing using ant4docbook (http://ant4docbook.sourceforge.net). I remember that some people are working on this subject in the Google Summer Of Code. Am I

Re: [docbook-apps] Regarding the project DocBook to Word XML roundtripping XSLs

2012-04-04 Thread Steve Ball
that you can replicate it in order to create new documents. Cheers, Steve Ball On 05/04/2012, at 3:35 AM, Buddhiprabha Erabadda wrote: Hi Steve, Nice to see you in the mailing list. On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:20 AM, Steve Ball steve.b...@explain.com.au wrote: Hi, I'm assuming that you

Re: [docbook-apps] Regarding the project DocBook to Word XML roundtripping XSLs

2012-04-03 Thread Steve Ball
to later versions of Word? Use of XSLT 2.0? Let me know. Cheers, Steve Ball Explain On 02/04/2012, at 2:03 PM, Buddhiprabha Erabadda wrote: Hi Steve, I am Buddhiprabha Erabadda, a third year undergraduate from Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa. I went through

Re: [docbook-apps] Problem with tables and roundtrip to WordML

2011-03-21 Thread Steve Ball
Hi David, Patches certainly are welcome. I'm doing some work on the roundtrip system right now, so I can get those modifications into the official release fairly soon. Cheers, Steve Ball - To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook

Re: [docbook-apps] Problem with tables and roundtrip to WordML

2011-03-21 Thread Steve Ball
Hi Mathieu, Yes, I have those bug reports and will be developing fixes ASAP. Cheers, Steve Ball On 21/03/2011, at 8:42 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Hi Steve, On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Steve Ball steve.b...@explain.com.au wrote: Patches certainly are welcome. I'm doing some work

Re: [docbook-apps] Problem with tables and roundtrip to WordML

2011-02-28 Thread Steve Ball
As for being able to produce professional looking tables, there is some work to do in setting up table column widths and borders properly. However, YMMV. Cheers, Steve Ball On 01/03/2011, at 7:16 AM, David Hinds wrote: I'm trying to convert a very simple docbook file to WordML using the roundtrip

Re: [docbook-apps] Round trip style sheets

2011-01-26 Thread Steve Ball
that's not too far from WordML so it wouldn't be difficult. However, right now my big project is implementing XPath 2.0/XSLT 2.0 for libxml2/libxslt so I don't have any spare time to work on the roundtrip stylesheets :-( Cheers, Steve Ball On 25/01/2011, at 7:07 PM, Speights, Scott wrote: Hello

Re: [docbook-apps] Word 2007+ to DocBook

2010-05-06 Thread Steve Ball
; basically it is just the XML Namespace URIs that have changed. I'm working on libxslt at the moment (implementing XSLT 2.0), so haven't really got time to look at the roundtripping stuff. However, email me directly if you have any further questions. Cheers, Steve Ball On 07/05/2010, at 6:29 AM, gpev

Re: [docbook-apps] roundtrip - normalise-common.xsl - customization and section numbering

2010-04-11 Thread Steve Ball
sect2 to sect4 without an intervening sect3. Doing so would violate the DocBook schema. Cheers, Steve Ball On 11/04/2010, at 1:07 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Hi there, I am trying to customize normalise-common.xsl to remap the custom style to proper 'known names' for wordml rountrip. I

Re: [docbook-apps] Word 2007 Office Open XML; IndentXML

2009-03-19 Thread Steve Ball
. Cheers, Steve Ball indent.xsl Description: Binary data On 20/03/2009, at 12:45 AM, Betty Ing wrote: Hello, How much effort is required to leverage MS Word 2007 Office Open XML for generating DocBook XML? Has anyone used the IndentXML application for prettifying human-unreadable XML code

Re: [docbook-apps] Landscape tables across multiple pages

2008-11-06 Thread Steve Ball
(XSLT2 is excellent for this purpose!). Those different parts are then rendered as sequential fo:page-sequences. Let me know if you would like further information on this approach. Cheers, Steve Ball On 06/11/2008, at 11:10 PM, Paul Suckling wrote: Hi Bob. I am not an XSL expert, let alone

Re: [docbook-apps] roundtrip - wordml2normalise.xsl/normalise-common.xsl - customizing possible?

2008-07-30 Thread Steve Ball
;-) Cheers, Steve Ball On 29/07/2008, at 8:53 PM, Vittorio Muth wrote: Hi all, I'm not familiar with WordML nor DocBook but trying to convert 1 WordML file with ~200 pages to DocBook. (a good start...) When running the XML pipeline WordML2DocBook I got errors at the end (blocks2dbk.xsl) with 35

Re: AW: [docbook-apps] roundtrip-stylesheets

2008-05-19 Thread Steve Ball
that... it will be done in the fullness of time ;-) At the moment my priority is to get features working and tested that my (paying) clients require. After that I'll move on to everything else. Steve Ball On 19/05/2008, at 3:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Steve, thank you

Re: [docbook-apps] roundtrip-stylesheets

2008-05-06 Thread Steve Ball
(mainly on tables), but I have not been testing variablelist support (yet - I am planning on more thoroughly testing all supported elements). In any case, it may be a good idea to pull the latest versions from the SVN repository. Cheers, Steve Ball On 06/05/2008, at 3:55 PM, [EMAIL

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook editor

2008-01-29 Thread Steve Ball
processor's XML to DocBook, and vice-versa. Accordingly, you some sort of framework to run the transformations. I'm working on that too. Cheers, Steve Ball On 30/01/2008, at 1:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I have been using XMLmind XXE as a DocBook editor and it works

[docbook-apps] Roundtrip Stylesheets

2008-01-11 Thread Steve Ball
. Feel free to send me any comments on this approach. Cheers, Steve Ball - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [docbook-apps] images in docbook to wordml transformation

2008-01-07 Thread Steve Ball
paragraph. BTW, I am planning on producing documentation for these editorial rules. Honest ;-) HTHs, Steve Ball On 08/01/2008, at 12:35 AM, Antti Karanta wrote: Hi! I was wondering what image formats are supported in docbook to wordml transformation. I did

Re: [docbook-apps] Re: docbook to wordml problems

2008-01-04 Thread Steve Ball
Hi Antti, On 04/01/2008, at 6:41 PM, Antti Karanta wrote: On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:41:20 +0200, Steve Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstly, the stylesheet you are using is the old version; I'm currently working on a new system of XSL stylesheets, currently only in the Subversion

Re: [docbook-apps] docbook to wordml conversion questions

2008-01-04 Thread Steve Ball
for further comments. Cheers, Steve Ball On 05/01/2008, at 8:33 AM, Mayo Jordanov wrote: Hello, I'm having some issues with docbook to wordml conversion, and was wondering if anyone on this list would be able to help me out. The document gets converted with no errors, but there are some

Re: [docbook-apps] docbook to wordml problems

2008-01-03 Thread Steve Ball
schema, if the document doesn't open in Word then that likely is because it doesn't validate. Validation is the first step in getting a document to open in Word, but it is not the last step ;-) HTHs, Steve Ball On 04/01/2008, at 1:08 AM, Antti Karanta wrote

[docbook-apps] Re: Update on roundtrip: wordml to docbook

2007-10-09 Thread Steve Ball
occurring. Cheers, Steve Ball On 08/10/2007, at 9:58 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Anyone ? Thanks, On 10/1/07, Mathieu Malaterre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I posted a while back a couples of issues with roundtrip doing a wordml to docbook conversion. Ref: http://www.oasis-open.org

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook and OpenOffice

2007-04-18 Thread Steve Ball
. The stylesheets haven't been checked-in to SVN yet because they're not quite finished, but if you would like a sneak-peek then let me know. Cheers, Steve Ball On 19/04/2007, at 6:55 AM, Colin Shapiro wrote: Hi all, I'm looking to use OpenOffice Writer as a temporary editor for DocBook documents

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook and OpenOffice

2007-04-18 Thread Steve Ball
Hi Ray, Yes they should support the book root element. If not, that's a bug and please report it. At the very least, article, book and chapter are supported. The new stylesheets that I am currently working will support appendix, preface and all other toplevel elements. Cheers, Steve

Re: [docbook-apps] RE: Roundtrip stylesheets how-to?

2007-03-04 Thread Steve Ball
, Steve Ball On 04/03/2007, at 11:38 AM, Denis Bradford wrote: Sorry, sent the previous before finished. I meant to say, I tried this: java com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet -r org.apache.xml.resolver.tools.CatalogResolver -x org.apache.xml.resolver.tools.ResolvingXMLReader -o hr-resume.sxw hr-resume

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Mac OS X Toolchain?

2003-01-02 Thread Steve Ball
working on that! HTHs, Steve Ball -- Steve Ball| XSLT Standard Library | Training Seminars Zveno Pty Ltd | Web Tcl Complete | XML XSL Schemas http://www.zveno.com/ | TclXML TclDOM| Tcl, Web Development [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: looking for docbook/xml/xslt/etc courseware

2002-10-17 Thread Steve Ball
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Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: SVG in HTML output, XSLT stylesheets

2002-05-21 Thread Steve Ball
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Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: SVG in HTML output, XSLT stylesheets

2002-05-21 Thread Steve Ball
Dave Pawson wrote: At 22:57 21/05/2002 +1000, Steve Ball wrote: Perhaps suggest for inclusion in mediaobject? I treat them exactly the same way as images, ie. use imageobject inside a mediaobject. I note that DocBook 4.1.2+ has provision for SVG. Do the html stylesheets do the right

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Looking for swc

2002-02-25 Thread Steve Ball
parameters as the Unix wc command. To run it you'll need ActiveState Tcl - http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActiveTcl/ HTHs, Steve Ball -- Steve Ball| XSLT Standard Library | Training Seminars Zveno Pty Ltd | Web Tcl Complete | XML XSL Schemas http