Re: [docbook-apps] help please. fo output, header and footer?

2007-10-11 Thread Dave Pawson
=$double.sided != 0 and $sequence = 'even' and position='right' With Content selected from document. Bit messier^h more complex than the html isn't it :-) Getting there, thanks for the example. Your deleted marker stuff looks tempting though. Much appreciated. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT, XSL-FO

Re: [docbook-apps] oXygen 9 beta with WYSIWYG-like editing support for DocBook

2007-10-04 Thread Dave Pawson
Elliotte Harold wrote: Dave Pawson wrote: Which I think is one of the key points of author mode? To make it easier for the other 99% of users. 99% of users are working in Word. I'm concerned about the 1% of users who are using DocBook because they do need semantic markup. I'm curious why

Re: [docbook-apps] oXygen 9 beta with WYSIWYG-like editing support for DocBook

2007-10-04 Thread Dave Pawson
Elliotte Harold wrote: Dave Pawson wrote: If you want tags on semantic editing, fine. Use oXygen in that mode. Some users want an alternative non-tagged view, for their own reasons. Please don't knock them for that, they've as much right to use the editor in their way as you have. I am

Re: [docbook-apps] oXygen 9 beta with WYSIWYG-like editing support for DocBook

2007-10-03 Thread Dave Pawson
from bold and underline and italic to semantic markup should be made as easy as possible, even if it upsets the hard line semantic folks. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT, XSL-FO and Docbook FAQ http://www.dpawson.co.uk

Re: [docbook-apps] oXygen 9 beta with WYSIWYG-like editing support for DocBook

2007-10-03 Thread Dave Pawson
way. No, I think the users will have to use a lot of effort. (I also have seen lots of rebellion too!) regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT, XSL-FO and Docbook FAQ http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [docbook-apps] oXygen 9 beta with WYSIWYG-like editing support for DocBook

2007-10-03 Thread Dave Pawson
% of users. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT, XSL-FO and Docbook FAQ http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [docbook-apps] Unable to get the document 'title' and 'releaseinfo'

2007-10-01 Thread Dave Pawson
-0.94\fop.bat -xml input\test\index.xml -xsl custom\test-header.xsl -pdf output\test\test.pdf Result : Attached file test.pdf Attachments: http://www.nabble.com/file/p12976720/test.pdf test.pdf http://www.nabble.com/file/p12976720/test-header.xsl test-header.xsl -- Dave Pawson XSLT, XSL-FO

Re: [docbook-apps] Unable to get the document 'title' and 'releaseinfo'

2007-10-01 Thread Dave Pawson
-of select=ancestor-or-self::book/info/title/ xsl:value-of select=/book/info/title/ But they are xslt instructions? I'd assumed they were in test-header.xsl? -- Dave Pawson XSLT, XSL-FO and Docbook FAQ http://www.dpawson.co.uk

[docbook-apps] makeinfo - Per?

2007-09-24 Thread Dave Pawson
? Guessing that the majority of users of makeinfo are Linux, and use whatever toolchain is built into the OS? This is a guess, no more. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT, XSL-FO and Docbook FAQ http://www.dpawson.co.uk

[docbook-apps] Indices

2007-09-23 Thread Dave Pawson
mechanism to group index entries by some attribute value? I don't think the zone attribute is applicabe? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT, XSL-FO and Docbook FAQ http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [docbook-apps] Indices

2007-09-23 Thread Dave Pawson
Thomas Schraitle wrote: Hi Dave, On Sonntag, 23. September 2007, Dave Pawson wrote: I'm looking at the emacs texinfo markup. It has indexterms marked by 'class', e.g. index terms for variables, functions, keys etc. Is there such capability in docbook please? If I understood you correctly

Re: [docbook-apps] Posting examples on the wiki

2007-09-20 Thread Dave Pawson
enough to make an extension then an XSL customization layer to process it to html. This is both Schema and XSL changes. Any views? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT, XSL-FO and Docbook FAQ http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e

Re: [docbook-apps] Posting examples on the wiki

2007-09-20 Thread Dave Pawson
with the schema, on the off chance that the version change is sufficient to mess up the customization. I've created a blank page for schemas. http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocbookSchemas regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT, XSL-FO and Docbook FAQ http://www.dpawson.co.uk

[docbook-apps] xweb, literate programming, tangle and weave.

2007-09-18 Thread Dave Pawson
xslt 2.0 http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/tools.html#d994e3613 Comments, suggestions for improvement welcome as always regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT, XSL-FO and Docbook FAQ http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail

[docbook-apps] Docbook, DITA and Sun

2007-09-17 Thread Dave Pawson
http://blogs.sun.com/coolstuff/entry/building_a_bridge_dita_docbook subtitle. In a perfect world :-) regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT, XSL-FO and Docbook FAQ http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[docbook-apps] Docbook article

2007-09-12 Thread Dave Pawson
http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/35301 regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT, XSL-FO and Docbook FAQ http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [docbook-apps] Managing changes to the XSLT stylesheets

2007-09-12 Thread Dave Pawson
Markus Hoenicka wrote: Quoting Dave Pawson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Confused. As you say, each time you update you lose your changes if you modify 'docbooks' stylesheets. A customization layer is much nicer, and re-usable. E.g. if your directory stuff was in one stylesheet, I could include

Re: [docbook-apps] Neater Section Numbering

2007-09-12 Thread Dave Pawson
and title by the correct distance without using the table. http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect3/N8681.html#d13496e223 uses a float. The other option is to use a list, withe the number as the marker, the heading as the list item? Same page. HTH -- Dave Pawson XSLT, XSL-FO and Docbook FAQ http

Re: [docbook-apps] Managing changes to the XSLT stylesheets

2007-09-12 Thread Dave Pawson
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Re: [docbook-apps] White space in fo question

2007-09-06 Thread Dave Pawson
line. (or perhaps one of the other 'spaces', probably #xa0; easiest) Merge together. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e

Re: [docbook-apps] White space in fo question

2007-09-06 Thread Dave Pawson
Source -stylesheets-fop-pdf regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [docbook-apps] db 4.5, table cell widths.

2007-09-05 Thread Dave Pawson
this to mean the text width without forced line breaks. No line breaks. Balanced columns means I have wasted space and I want to float the table left to fit an image into the space on the right? Minimised to 'just' fit the text does that. regards - Original Message - From: Dave Pawson

Re: [docbook-apps] Noob: Python DocBook to PDF

2007-09-05 Thread Dave Pawson
of Latex fitting into this mix very comfortably, especially the templating side. I think you could be into some negotiating. Try and find out where their priorities are? HTH regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk

Re: [docbook-apps] Adding a PDF bookmark for List of Figures

2007-09-05 Thread Dave Pawson
://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xsl11-20041216/#fo_bookmark Just wondering if it is an extension or something from 1.1? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [docbook-apps] olink generated text question

2007-09-05 Thread Dave Pawson
(not to a specific element within the document), You could use an id for the root element as the target? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [docbook-apps] olink generated text question

2007-09-05 Thread Dave Pawson
and the stylesheets... so. Anyway it works :-) Glad to see you using db! regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [docbook-apps] Noob: Python DocBook to PDF

2007-09-04 Thread Dave Pawson
to better define your problem, and not presume that DocBook or XML are necessarily going to be part of the solution. This is more important, rather than you wasting time? What constraints are you working under, if any? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk

[docbook-apps] db 4.5, table cell widths.

2007-09-03 Thread Dave Pawson
the html table model please. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [docbook-apps] db 4.5, table cell widths.

2007-09-03 Thread Dave Pawson
Dave Pawson wrote: Using db 4.5 I'm trying to generate smaller widths in the columns Resolved by moving over to docbook v5 and snapshot stylesheets. Issue: table xmlns=http://docbook.org/ns/docbook; xmlns:xi=http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude; border=1 floatstyle=left id=d0e6

Re: [docbook-apps] The XSLT 2 stylesheets

2007-08-31 Thread Dave Pawson
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[docbook-apps] Firefox navigation, docbook webpages

2007-08-30 Thread Dave Pawson
and it is really quite neat! http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect1/sect1.html Bobs pages work nicely too, e.g. http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/Audience.html regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk

Re: [docbook-apps] OT - XSLT training in the UK - recommendations

2007-08-15 Thread Dave Pawson
anyway. Location is not that important. Jeni Tennison, jenitennison.com She knows her stuff, can explain it very well and is UK based. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: [docbook-apps] Any source of Plain-text stylesheets?

2007-08-13 Thread Dave Pawson
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Re: [docbook-apps] Any source of Plain-text stylesheets?

2007-08-13 Thread Dave Pawson
the file and save it as plain text. http://lynx.isc.org/lynx2.8.5/lynx2-8-5/lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html#RemoteSource (I seem to remember there was a command line option to load the file, then save to disk as plain text, but I can't find it) HTH regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http

Re: [docbook-apps] modify page number lables in PDF

2007-08-08 Thread Dave Pawson
is actually on page 17. See the spec. 7.27.7 initial-page-number for non Roman numbering, see 7.26.1 format which refers you to the XSLT spec, http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#format-number HTH regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk

Re: [docbook-apps] getting text from external xml file

2007-07-31 Thread Dave Pawson
the namespace of course. HTH regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [docbook-apps] getting text from external xml file

2007-07-31 Thread Dave Pawson
=document('x.xml')/ms:project/ms:version/ if you wanted version or xsl:value-of select=document('x.xml')/ms:project/ms:ModelVersion/ to get 4.0.0 regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe

[docbook-apps] Complex parameters.

2007-07-03 Thread Dave Pawson
. I'm looking for a way of specifying a parameter to indicate the required order of presentation of a number of elements. Any suggestions welcome. TIA regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk

Re: [docbook-apps] Complex parameters.

2007-07-03 Thread Dave Pawson
/ /namePattern If the el name can't be found in the item I'm formatting then it's a blow up job? Or ignore it. I do like the spacing idea though (%b) to move the layout task to the author. xsl:textmight be the simplest/xsl:text Thoughts? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http

Re: [docbook-apps] Complex parameters.

2007-07-03 Thread Dave Pawson
last-first family-given IMHO that is a kludge. Take 6 variants, rather than a couple. The single token values becomes 'rather' large. Where is docbook going next I guess is the question? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk

Re: [docbook-apps] Complex parameters.

2007-07-03 Thread Dave Pawson
is his first name.) For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_order#Name_order end quote. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands

Re: [docbook-apps] xsl:template name=href.target.uri in both html.xsl and chunk-common.xsl

2007-07-02 Thread Dave Pawson
. Doh! Yes. Should have guessed. Thanks Bob. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[docbook-apps] localization.

2007-07-01 Thread Dave Pawson
In en.xml etc, there are uses of %t, %n etc. Anyone know where (if anywhere) these are explained? I can't find anything in Bobs book. TIA regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e

Re: [docbook-apps] localization.

2007-07-01 Thread Dave Pawson
Thomas Schraitle wrote: Hi Dave, On Sonntag, 1. Juli 2007, Dave Pawson wrote: In en.xml etc, there are uses of %t, %n etc. %t = title %s = subtitle (if available) %n = number %p = page number (if applicable) Some examples can be find in this section: http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl

[docbook-apps] xsl:template name=href.target.uri in both html.xsl and chunk-common.xsl

2007-07-01 Thread Dave Pawson
Anyone know why please, and which takes precedence? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[docbook-apps] html/pi.xsl and common/pi.xsl

2007-06-29 Thread Dave Pawson
Anyone explain the purpose of these two please, or more useful, the difference? xslt 2.0 doesn't like including both of them. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

[docbook-apps] docbook from wiki?

2007-06-20 Thread Dave Pawson
Some time back there was a thread talking about some wiki code that used docbook? Another list I'm on is asking about getting docbook from a wiki. Can anyone remember where it was please? TIA, regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk

Re: [docbook-apps] saxon, xerces, xinclude, and DB5 (was Re: [docbook-apps] trouble using FOP to process FO file generated by Xalan or Saxon)

2007-06-13 Thread Dave Pawson
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Re: [docbook-apps] saxon, xerces, xinclude, and DB5 (was Re: [docbook-apps] trouble using FOP to process FO file generated by Xalan or Saxon)

2007-06-12 Thread Dave Pawson
don't think the Xerces parser fully implements the xpointer stuff Camille. Simple xincludes yes, but not partial includes. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook 5x MSXML/.NET?

2007-06-11 Thread Dave Pawson
a .net app would hack it without jumping into another language to process the relaxNG? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail

Re: [docbook-apps] About computing total pages

2007-06-06 Thread Dave Pawson
. Stayton for the great work made on DocBook. Yes, that's the only way. http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect3/N8703.html#d13707e31 explains it. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e

[docbook-apps] emacs

2007-06-05 Thread Dave Pawson
In case you didn't know. emacs 22.1 is out. 6 years after 21! http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

Re: [docbook-apps] How to handle XML code in programlistings?

2007-06-05 Thread Dave Pawson
accessible Bob? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [docbook-apps] Proper way to specify UNC path in XML catalog

2007-05-31 Thread Dave Pawson
#d15268e31 has what explanations I've gathered. HTH regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBookWiki

2007-05-31 Thread Dave Pawson
the stylesheets to get this. HTH regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[docbook-apps] imagedata, formats

2007-05-29 Thread Dave Pawson
I'm not having much success with jpegs, using jpg as the extension. gif's show up, but the quality is rubbish. converted to png in Gimp, the png fails to show at all (html output, 1.72) Any suggestions as to what's going wrong please? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http

Re: [docbook-apps] imagedata, formats

2007-05-29 Thread Dave Pawson
Dave Pawson wrote: I'm not having much success with jpegs, using jpg as the extension. gif's show up, but the quality is rubbish. converted to png in Gimp, the png fails to show at all (html output, 1.72) Any suggestions as to what's going wrong please? It's me being daft. I output to a named

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBookWiki application

2007-05-27 Thread Dave Pawson
? Just a little scepticism Mike? I've seen lots of 'perfect XML creation tools', as I'm sure have others. I've yet to see one do more than quite simple document creation. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk

[docbook-apps] 404?

2007-05-24 Thread Dave Pawson
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/ -DocBook.org — official documentation - download the DocBook schema/DTD. Links to http://docbook.org/oasis/index.html seems there's a redirect to http://docbook.org/schemasindex.html which is 404? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http

Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook and Imagemaps

2007-05-16 Thread Dave Pawson
. Would FO support be viable? No. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [docbook-apps] To Rene Hache, Larry Garfield, Bob Stayton, Jirka Kosek - About a former XHTML accessiblity project

2007-05-15 Thread Dave Pawson
. Maybe am I wrong and then, could you tell me how I can get a pure, table-less output? You need to define 'pure'. You mentioned accessibility. Is that your goal? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk

[docbook-apps] xmlroff 0.5

2007-05-15 Thread Dave Pawson
GOption patch and to Patric Stout of ISeeR for providing the web hosting and being on-hand to sort out the teething troubles. Regards, Tony Graham. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe

Re: [docbook-apps] To Rene Hache, Larry Garfield, Bob Stayton, Jirka Kosek - About a former XHTML accessiblity project

2007-05-14 Thread Dave Pawson
? Is it still undergoing or as it been abandoned? For many reasons, I am very interested in getting semantical, CSS styled XHTML output. So are many of us, which is why we choose docbook! regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk

Re: [docbook-apps] Where to start?

2007-04-21 Thread Dave Pawson
help me get started or is that even necessary? I can do html, css, ruby but have no experience with xml except for minimal experience listed above. I'm ex www.rnib.org.uk so I know the not-for-profit scenario. Let me know if I can help. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http

Re: [docbook-apps] Better-looking DocBook XSL-FO stylesheets?

2007-03-05 Thread Dave Pawson
within the constraints of what you can afford? Learn the compliance table fo fop; then complain about not being able to do X or Y Hendy. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e

Re: [docbook-apps] internal linking

2007-03-04 Thread Dave Pawson
=select: label/ shows a suitable script/para example xml:id=routing.ex6 titleThe NVDL script for xref linkend='routing.ex1'//title programlisting Gets me Example 2.9 shows a suitable script Perfect. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Problems with ANT and DocBook

2003-03-17 Thread Dave Pawson
At 08:29 17/03/2003 -0800, Carlos Araya wrote: More information: If you're having problems with the XML parser that comes withjdk1.4.X, look at Sun's Endorsed Standards Override Mechanism (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/guide/standards/). This is apparently a compatibility problem between

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: DTD vs. XML Schema

2003-03-14 Thread Dave Pawson
At 13:50 14/03/2003 +0100, Gour wrote: Jirka Kosek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: From theoretical point of view RNG is cool schema language especially for grammar-based document types like DocBook. AFAIK there is zero support for RNG in XML content creation tools (editors). And you will have

DOCBOOK-APPS: qnaentry in div, not html wrapper

2003-03-11 Thread Dave Pawson
I'm playing with docbook via a servlet, with queries into mySQL database. That means I may get n results. Each row would refer to a single qnaentry. I'd like to wrap them all in a single html document, each entry in some wrapper. Has anyone looked at this class of customisation please? regards

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: qnaentry in div, not html wrapper

2003-03-11 Thread Dave Pawson
At 10:55 11/03/2003 -0800, Bob Stayton wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 04:34:43PM +, Dave Pawson wrote: I'm playing with docbook via a servlet, with queries into mySQL database. That means I may get n results. Each row would refer to a single qnaentry. I'd like to wrap them all

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: [NW-XSLT:FO] styling chapter (/component) titles

2003-02-01 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:15 01/02/2003 +0100, Tobias Reif wrote: Hi I use Norman Walsh's XSLTs 1.59.2 to generate FO. Setting stuff via the titlepage mechanism works so far: changing !ENTITY hsize5 24.8832pt to be 4pt changes the generated FO, and makes chapter titles very small. But changing font-weight=bold

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Is it time to rely on CSS?

2003-01-22 Thread Dave Pawson
At 14:20 21/01/2003 -0600, Adam DiCarlo wrote: What we want is: 1. distributor 2. author 3. user And Jeff Beal's point is very much to the point. I don't know how to achieve what we want. I had thought (mistakenly) that external CSS is higher priority than HTMLHEAD... CSS. To the user

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Is it time to rely on CSS?

2003-01-21 Thread Dave Pawson
At 13:34 20/01/2003 -0600, Paul Grosso wrote: But CSS use can happen in three levels: 1. in the style attribute 2. in the style element 3. in a separate stylesheet. There are extra problems with managing standalone stylesheets (much as I appreciate the benefits of separating content and

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Is it time to rely on CSS?

2003-01-21 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:55 20/01/2003 -0800, Carlos Araya wrote: If folks here think that's the way to go I'd agree (I do most of my web design with CSS). You just need to be careful not to break all the existing documents for people using older browsers. Hi Carlos. No problem with the backwards compatibility

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Rely on CSS?

2003-01-21 Thread Dave Pawson
At 13:05 21/01/2003 -0500, ed nixon wrote: For my part, I'd like to think that there was solid support from the DocBook community to aim for WAI Guidelines conformance at some meaningful level out of the box; And it does pretty damn well Ed :-) Mainly thanks to Norms work with the

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Is it time to rely on CSS?

2003-01-20 Thread Dave Pawson
At 13:21 20/01/2003 -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: Historically, the stylesheets have tried to walk some sort of a line between relying on CSS and getting reasonable results in browsers that don't support CSS. Is it time to move that line farther out, removing things that could be done with CSS and

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Is it time to rely on CSS?

2003-01-20 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:10 20/01/2003 -0800, Bob Stayton wrote: I'm concerned about the transition. Docbook is (has been) pretty good about that to date Bob. *** We will do this at that version, be warned *** I think that's viable with CSS. CSS1 is probably right though, with CSS2 lurking for sexy stuff :-)

DOCBOOK-APPS: Norm's catalog article.

2003-01-15 Thread Dave Pawson
http://www.arbortext.com/Think_Tank/Norm_s_Column/Issue_Three/body_issue_three.html#N703 Now 404 I had it linked from the faq. Anyone copied it ... elsewhere? I guess his old employers don't want it anymore? regards DaveP

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Norm's catalog article.

2003-01-15 Thread Dave Pawson
At 13:19 15/01/2003 -0600, Robin Cover wrote: possibly: http://xml.coverpages.org/walshSystemsIDsNewURL.html ??? grin/ MM maybe Robin :-) Glad we can trust some net resources. Thanks. DaveP.

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: website and dir

2003-01-14 Thread Dave Pawson
At 23:10 14/01/2003 -0500, Kevin Dunn wrote: I am using website 2.3 and have within layout.xml: tocentry page=myfile.xml dir=mydir filename=myfile.html/ myfile.xml contains: mediaobjectimageobjectimagedata fileref=../graphics/mygif.gif format=GIF width=50% align=center//imageobject/mediaobject

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: website and dir

2003-01-14 Thread Dave Pawson
At 22:08 14/01/2003 -0800, Bob Stayton wrote: Currently, no. But this would make a fine feature request. Hi Bob. What about the idea of a general graphics-path param? Then Kevin could simply use the graphics file name and the param value is prepended to that? Sounds good to me. regards

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: multiple tocs in website

2002-12-31 Thread Dave Pawson
At 02:12 31/12/2002 -0500, Kevin Dunn wrote: What is the purpose of having multiple tocs in website? I have experimented with it and can see how it works; it is almost as if it builds two completely separate websites, but with the same look and feel. Under what circumstances are multiple tocs

DOCBOOK-APPS: website tabular, missing image param.

2002-12-20 Thread Dave Pawson
Using website 2.2, the image in the very top left hand corner of the page (I think it should be the duckbook image) is neither mentioned in the param.xsl nor omitted. Any suggestions for the requisite param please? Or is it a std docbook param? TIA DaveP

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: website tabular, missing image param.

2002-12-20 Thread Dave Pawson
At 16:12 20/12/2002 +, Dave Pawson wrote: Using website 2.2, the image in the very top left hand corner of the page (I think it should be the duckbook image) is neither mentioned in the param.xsl nor omitted. Any suggestions for the requisite param please? Or is it a std docbook param

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: comments on Using the DocBook XSL Stylesheets

2002-12-15 Thread Dave Pawson
At 14:33 14/12/2002 -0800, Bob Stayton wrote: My doc covers both file path references and catalog references. For those just getting started, it is simpler to point to a real file on their local system. After they get that working, I have a whole chapter on XML catalogs. Having been there

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: ant and website ?

2002-12-01 Thread Dave Pawson
At 18:08 01/12/2002 +0900, Shawn wrote: I am happily using ant to build my html (thanks to dpawson http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/ant.html ) but don't understand it's relationship to website. When trying to build a website (to see what it's like and how it's different from chunking my html

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Experiences as Authors

2002-11-29 Thread Dave Pawson
At 08:07 29/11/2002 +0100, Stephan Wiesner wrote: 'make' sounds interesting. Anybody doing that with Ant? (I read the article from http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/ant.html, but didn't understand it). I'd be interested to know which bits didn't work for you Stephan? I doubt you are alone.

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: building with ant

2002-11-29 Thread Dave Pawson
At 17:24 29/11/2002 +0900, Shawn wrote: Also, in the article on ant at http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/ant.html, It suggests using pathelement path=../ !-- for catalogManager.properties -- I'm green and don't know where .. is (under the current directory?) so I put mine in a catalogs

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Experiences as Authors

2002-11-29 Thread Dave Pawson
At 09:53 29/11/2002 +, Ashley J.S Mills wrote: Here is what I do: http://supportweb.cs.bham.ac.uk/documentation/tutorials/ Is all that lot docbook Ashley? Quite an impessive collection. regards DaveP

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Creating a website with the website.dtd

2002-11-17 Thread Dave Pawson
At 14:05 17/11/2002, Gerrit Kuilder wrote: Hello All, I have spend the last three hours looking for what must be the best kept secret on the internet: grin/You forgot to face South, spin 3 times whilst chanting ! What does the command look like for creating the sample website as it is

Re: AW: DOCBOOK-APPS: Creating a website with the website.dtd

2002-11-17 Thread Dave Pawson
At 17:19 17/11/2002, Daniel S. Haischt wrote: ${JAVA} -cp ${CLASSPATH} com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet \ -o . \ -x org.apache.xml.resolver.tools.ResolvingXMLReader \ -y org.apache.xml.resolver.tools.ResolvingXMLReader \ -r org.apache.xml.resolver.tools.CatalogResolver \

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Creating a website with the website.dtd

2002-11-17 Thread Dave Pawson
At 17:22 17/11/2002, Gerrit Kuilder wrote: Hi Dave, the * were created by copying and pasting and some formatting stuff in mozilla The shouyld look like '../' Anyway... The new and improved saxonweb.bat looks like: REM begin Bat set CLASSPATH=D:\saxon6_5_2\saxon.jar;D:\saxon6_5_2\saxon64.jar cd

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: line before footnote area

2002-11-13 Thread Dave Pawson
At 21:12 12/11/2002, Bob Stayton wrote: On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 02:18:47PM +0100, Marko Petersen wrote: Hi, I am trying to add a line between the main-reference-area and the footnote-reference-area in the PDF output. Has anybody an idea how to do this? I don't see any way to do this. When

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: FW: [ANN] xml-commons-resolver-1.0 released asindependent component

2002-11-13 Thread Dave Pawson
At 00:49 13/11/2002, Michael Smith wrote: features. You can download the release at: http://xml.apache.org/commons/ If the text weren't restricted by the included font size in the CSS I might be able to read it Michael. Regards DaveP.

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Customization causing aspuriousError: no ID for constraint linkend message

2002-11-12 Thread Dave Pawson
At 19:00 11/11/2002, David Cramer wrote: Turns out the error is not so spurious after all--although the document does contain an id, my customization makes it impossible for the rest of the docbook xsls to resolve the xrefs and you end up with ??? in the output. My understanding of this is

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Customization causing a spuriousError: no ID for constraint linkend message

2002-11-10 Thread Dave Pawson
At 01:12 10/11/2002, Bob Stayton wrote: The line in question is: xsl:for-each select=$current.nodeset/node() Since $current.nodeset is created with a xsl:copy-of, it is a result tree fragment. How come your processor doesn't stumble on this? I use it regularly, with SAXON 6.5.2, setting

DOCBOOK-APPS: xml editor $99

2002-11-06 Thread Dave Pawson
on comp.text.xml a ann tells us of epcedit. Reasonable price for non commercial use. Has anyone tried it please? *nix and win32. http://www.epcedit.com/Products/Features/features.html for features. Just curious. DaveP

RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: xml editor $99

2002-11-06 Thread Dave Pawson
At 19:44 06/11/2002, Jeff Beal wrote: I tried the trial version for a few days, and it seemed pretty good. It's been a while, and I don't remember many specifics, but I do remember it had a good table editor. It was a bit unique, in that you didn't edit the table in-place. Your editing pane

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: doublespacing and end-notes

2002-10-25 Thread Dave Pawson
At 15:17 25/10/2002, Paul Grosso wrote: At 23:58 2002 10 24 -0700, Bob Stayton wrote: I don't believe there is any support in DocBook XSL for end notes instead of footnotes. On the FO side, I don't think XSL-FO has direct support for end notes using the fo:footnote element. End notes would make

Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook to latex

2002-10-23 Thread Dave Pawson
At 12:07 23/10/2002, Hery wrote: Hi, is there someone who tried direct conversion from an xml docbook to latex file ? A certain gentleman in Ireland was very interested in this. He maintains the xml faq. http://www.ucc.ie/xml/ Peter by name. I don't know just how far he got with it.

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