Re: DOCBOOK: Chunking with XML

2001-05-09 Thread Dave Pawson
At 02:05 PM 5/9/01, Galen Boyer wrote: Three Questions (Feel free to point me to other documentation that I obviously may not have read) 1) It looks like the local variables section may be a standard section for editors to look for? I thought this was just an Emacs thing. I think it is.

Re: DOCBOOK: XML, docbook and SVG

2001-06-21 Thread Dave Pawson
/ Ed Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I'm new to the list so the usual FAQ-type apologies. I *have* searched | the archive, however, without much success. http://www.siliconpublishing.org/svgfaq/ may be a start? Regards DaveP

DOCBOOK: Being cheeky.

2001-07-18 Thread Dave Pawson
xfree86, the documentation leg of the screen driver bit of Linux, is moving to docbook. If there is anyone out there who wants practice at marking up stuff in docbook - XML, as an exercise, perhaps you could contact me off list. (slides out carefully). Hopefully, DaveP

Re: DOCBOOK: A novice's questions

2001-07-27 Thread Dave Pawson
At 05:45 PM 7/27/01, Jirka Kosek wrote: if you want to use XMetaL you must create these customizations by yourself. I'm sure there are docbook customisations around for xmetal? IIRC a couple of groups have addressed this problem. Regards daveP

Re: DOCBOOK: Docbook websites

2001-08-31 Thread Dave Pawson
At 22:57 27/08/2001 -0400, Roy Hoobler wrote: Hi, I'm not too thrilled about the website xsl pages. I'd like to use the Docbook format. Usually web applications consist of dynamic content and static content. I'd like to get the static content in a docbook format (all in one place). As far

Re: DOCBOOK: Forcing seperate documents

2001-09-17 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:20 17/09/2001 +0200, Ken Walton wrote: Hi All I am using ver4.1 of DocBookx.dtd with the xsl stylesheets and Xalan. In my book I am declaring a number of documents as entities. Can you tell me how I can force these into seperate documents rather than have them all included in one htm

Re: inlinegraphic going away... (Was Re: DOCBOOK: image with link)

2001-09-25 Thread Dave Pawson
At 09:42 25/09/2001 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: Uh-huh. I almost said that myself. Of course, you *really* ought to use: link linkend=mytarget inlinemediaobject imageobject imagedata fileref=mygraphic.gif format=GIF/ /imageobject textobject phraseSimple alt

Re: DOCBOOK: docbook as web site content vocabulary

2001-10-23 Thread Dave Pawson
At 17:13 23/10/2001 +0200, Oleg Tkachenko wrote: Hello there! I want to use docbook as vocabulary for web site content, i've seen a couple of sites built this way. Could you plz expalin me what I need to do (to learn, to design, to write etc.) in order to achieve this? Lots of reading. Get

Re: DOCBOOK: Warning: Newbie Question

2001-10-24 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:18 24/10/2001 -0400, Dan York wrote: Robert, If there is anyone one out there who has successfully been able to use DocBook on a PC and who would be willing to help a clueless newbie, please contact me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] We do most of our work on Linux, but I have had no problem

Re: DOCBOOK:

2001-11-01 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:11 01/11/2001 +0100, Broberg, Mats wrote: The epic editor version 4.2 includes the DocBook DTD as part of the package, the 15k Euro price is no longer applicable. If you are interested the price would be 695 Euros for the Editor and 165 Euros Maintenance for a fixed license. Wow,

Re: DOCBOOK: [website] newbie q

2001-11-04 Thread Dave Pawson
At 22:43 03/11/2001 +0200, Oleg Tkachenko wrote: Hello there! I've started playing with website DTD and everything seems to be Ok, except rather long site generation. Is I realize, major part of the processing time is wasted on download of imported docbook stylesheets from

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Concrete proposal for #480954: Extend textobject toinsertexternal files

2001-11-13 Thread Dave Pawson
At 09:06 13/11/2001 -0400, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: OK, I can see that; but DocBook doesn't need PSVI properties so this isn't a problem here. Heck. there's not even a schema for DocBook yet, is there? Can you try and persuade the laggards that its worthwhile Elliot? E.g. some example

Re: DOCBOOK: Linking in DocBook V5.0

2001-11-14 Thread Dave Pawson
At 18:13 14/11/2001 +0100, Jirka Kosek wrote: OK. So lets have extended links in DocBook. With ~400 elements, DocBook always provided features that most users didn't use, but they were there for few people who needed them. Lot of truth in that Norm! The XML ahead is a docbook instance?

Re: DOCBOOK: XML Schemas and docbook documents

2001-11-16 Thread Dave Pawson
At 16:19 15/11/2001 -0800, Earl Bingham wrote: Since I have heard that all new standards with W3 and since .NET is completely XML Schema related, is DTD's dead? No. OK? To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the

Re: DOCBOOK: Why are legalnotices dropped?

2001-11-29 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:47 29/11/2001 -0600, Scott Bolte wrote: At this point I'm going to abandon the use of legalnotice and use a warning or something else that will highlight the importance of the message. Before I do that though, I'd like to make sure I'm not missing some

Re: DOCBOOK: A straw proposal for help topics in DocBook

2001-10-17 Thread Dave Pawson
At 13:56 16/10/2001 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: What's the plan: The overall plan is to allow people to author Help Sets using all of the rich technical structure of DocBook without shoe-horning it into the classical print book model. Guessing that 'topics' could be viewed in a similar way to

Re: DOCBOOK: XSLT stylesheet documentation

2001-12-03 Thread Dave Pawson
At 10:11 03/12/2001 +0100, Christoph Steinbeck wrote: Having to write a customization wrapper stylesheet is clear from your documentation of docbook.sf.net, but is there any documentation on the switches that can be used for customization? Say, to switch the line separation to 1.5 lines in the

Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook community of users

2001-12-13 Thread Dave Pawson
At 15:57 13/12/2001 -0500, Rowland, Cindy wrote: Anyone know of a list of organizations using DocBook? I'm trying to get a feeling for how wide-spread DocBook is and in what industries. http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/reference.html#d53e60 May give you a clue. HTH DaveP

Re: DOCBOOK: Elements and attributes (was Re: XML Schemas and docbookdocuments)

2001-12-15 Thread Dave Pawson
At 14:24 15/12/2001 -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: In other words, attributes should be reserved for lists of tokens, numbers, simple datatypes, etc. One nice consequence of this rule is that the need for entity references (most frequently character entity references) in attribute values is

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: doc domain vs. problem domain semantics (Re[2]:listitem)

2002-01-03 Thread Dave Pawson
At 07:46 03/01/2002 -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: Well, varlistentrys can have multiple terms, but yes. However, wanna bet the number of people confused by assoclist is roughly equal to the number of people confused by variablelist? :-) But far greater than the number who understand the HTML

Re: DOCBOOK: Adding metainfo to more places

2002-01-15 Thread Dave Pawson
At 14:37 15/01/2002 -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: The DocBook TC has had several discussions about additional places in DocBook where it would be beneficial to allow metainfo. Our current candidate list of places is: equation, example, figure, informalequation, informalexample,

DOCBOOK: Markup problem

2002-01-19 Thread Dave Pawson
How might the 'typedef struct' section below be marked up please? First (void) part is a funcsynopsis markup, but I'm stuck with the typedef. Any help appreciated. Regards DaveP The driver may replace the generic access control functions for an entity by it's own ones. This is done with the

DOCBOOK: macros

2002-01-23 Thread Dave Pawson
I can't find any markup for a macro (call). Is there any please? Regards DaveP

DOCBOOK: Re: macros

2002-01-24 Thread Dave Pawson
At 13:23 24/01/2002 -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: / Dave Pawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | At 19:48 23/01/2002 -0600, Michael Smith wrote: |Dave Pawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | I can't find any markup for a macro (call). | | Is there any please? | |Hi Dave, | |I think you need

Re: DOCBOOK: SVG in DocBook

2002-03-07 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:39 07/03/2002 +0100, E.L. Willighagen wrote: Is there a similar module for SVG as well yet? Or, even better, since i need to use both in one source, a module to support both MathML and SVG in DocBook? In CVS perhaps? On the w3c svg page, there is a mathml to svg piece. Might help? Then

Re: DOCBOOK: customizing docbook xsl

2002-04-09 Thread Dave Pawson
At 13:42 09/04/2002 -0400, Stefan Seefeld wrote: Uhm, you don't like the frames ? I understood the intent, just totally missed the solution :-) Well, the idea is that you can browse the document structure, content, as well as annotations in parallel. Right now I'm more or less trying to mimic

Re: DOCBOOK: #docbook on irc.openprojects.net

2002-04-29 Thread Dave Pawson
At 23:49 27/04/2002 -0700, Jesse Proulx wrote: I'm new to this mailing list, and Michael (xmldoc) suggested that I announce the new #docbook channel here. Its #docbook on irc.openprojects.net, and the only rule so far is just to be polite. 24/7 ?? How about a time/dow as a starting point?

Re: DOCBOOK: possible issue with fo XSLT

2002-05-05 Thread Dave Pawson
At 22:19 04/05/2002 +0100, Vincent Sanders wrote: I have applied norms XSLT FO transform (version 1.50.0) to produce an output xml file in FO format (using several processors including xsltproc and saxon). I then attempted to use FOP to create pdf output from this FO file, this resulted in FOP

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Building Where is the bibliography ?

2002-05-06 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:17 06/05/2002 -0400, Dan York wrote: Last time we (the DocBook Open Repository team) discussed it, the general feeling was that Make was still more broadly available than ant and was thus more appropriate. 100% agreed... warts and all, make is still the only thing you can count on

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Building Where is the bibliography ?

2002-05-06 Thread Dave Pawson
At 18:32 06/05/2002 +0200, Holger Krug wrote: Today it is very difficult to *make docbook*, it takes several hours to find all the resources needed, Good point Holger. Unless you've done it before, the full list of 'bits I need' are quite tiresome to track down. Worth a webpage on both oasis,

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Building Where is the bibliography ?

2002-05-06 Thread Dave Pawson
At 20:56 06/05/2002 +0200, Jirka Kosek wrote: I'm able to make stylesheets in Win32 environment using Cygwin. Having better and more automatically working making environment (based on make or ant) will be plus, but there are more important things I think. Agreed. Normall people are not forced

RE: DOCBOOK: step number and content on different lines

2002-05-10 Thread Dave Pawson
At 12:13 10/05/2002 +0100, O'Donnell, Vincent wrote: (using stylesheets 1.50) I don't think I am using a customization layer, but here is an example of the offending fo, snip/ I don't understand all the things in there (know where I can get explanations?) - I think it looks like it should work

Re: DOCBOOK: newbie Q's about Simplified DocBook 1.0b2

2002-05-17 Thread Dave Pawson
At 01:31 17/05/2002 -0600, Mike Brown wrote: Hi, I'm attempting to use Simplified DocBook 1.0b2. I have a couple of questions about it. I've only dabbled in DocBook before, so please forgive my ignorance or point me to a FAQ or more appropriate forum if this isn't the place to ask. Hi Mike.

Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook TC Meeting Minutes: 21 May 2002

2002-05-21 Thread Dave Pawson
At 15:15 21/05/2002 -0400, Norman Walsh wrote: / Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | DocBook Technical Committee Meeting Agenda: 21 May 2002 9b. XML Character entities Mike: Looking at some Linux distributions and a distribution for the CygWin system, I noticed that they are

Re: DOCBOOK: Macromedia Flash file in docbook

2002-05-29 Thread Dave Pawson
At 02:03 30/05/2002 +0800, Ming Fai wrote: I use docbook as the format to store content for my website. Now, there is a new page that need to use Macromedia Flash (.swf) file. After looked at the reference of mediaobject, it seems none of them is for holding this kind of web animation file. And

Re: DOCBOOK: Docbook Q's - references and image objects on the titlepage...

2002-06-10 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:25 10/06/2002 -0400, Val Schmidt wrote: I wasn't sure if this was a development-only list or if I can ask newbie questions. I apologize if these are bothersome and kindly ask that someone point me in a direction where I can get some help if they are. Second, I'd like to include an

Re: DOCBOOK: README

2002-06-14 Thread Dave Pawson
At 17:44 14/06/2002 +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 08:25:34AM -0400, Phil Griffin wrote: The readme.txt file appears as a single line of characters interspersed with black blobs when opened on a Windows box using the Notepad program. Isn't Notepad an obsolete and mostly

Re: DOCBOOK: Issues with processing expectations of the proposedannotation element

2002-06-26 Thread Dave Pawson
At 09:09 26/06/2002 -0400, Jason Foster wrote: snip/ Would a marginalia be considered an annotation? In textbooks a (somewhat) common layout is to divide the page into two columns (65%,35%?) where the inside columns contain the full text and the outside columns contain a

Re: DOCBOOK: Issues with processing expectations of the proposedannotation element

2002-06-27 Thread Dave Pawson
At 10:49 27/06/2002 +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: How do people feel annotation would relate to footnote and remark ? Markup wise, same thing different name? It seems to me that remark would be just a special case of annotation (class=(Editorial|ProofReader), and maybe a couple more), and that

Re: DOCBOOK: Issues with processing expectations of the proposedannotation element

2002-06-27 Thread Dave Pawson
At 06:15 27/06/2002 -0500, Michael Smith wrote: If we were to add an Annotation element, I think it could be of use for the HTML title attribute if a processing application (e.g. the DocBook XSL stylesheets) were to just convert all the Annotation content to text -- strip out any tags the

Re: DOCBOOK: numbered QA entries how?

2002-07-18 Thread Dave Pawson
At 05:10 19/07/2002, David Kilgour wrote: I would like my QA entries to be numbered: Q1 A Q2 A and for this numbering to continue across chapters. I would like to do this with both dsssl and xml docbook. Any suggestions welcome. If you look at www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook the qandaset there is

Re: DOCBOOK: tdg translation

2002-07-22 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:28 22/07/2002, BigSmoke wrote: Hiya anyone, I'm interested in writing a Dutch translation of Docbook: The Definitive Guide. I'm curious as to which XML sources to download and how. I'm not familiar with CVS. Any pointers which don't involve learning everything about CVS will be

Re: DOCBOOK: hierarchical element reference list for docbook?

2002-07-27 Thread Dave Pawson
At 07:11 27/07/2002, Robert P. J. Day wrote: is there a hierarchical reference list for the current docbook elements somewhere? you know, grouped by association or category or something like that. I'd suggest the index in docbook, the definitive guide, though perhaps a seperate index into

Re: DOCBOOK: hierarchical element reference list for docbook?

2002-07-27 Thread Dave Pawson
At 08:58 27/07/2002, Robert P. J. Day wrote: actually, i'm in the process of creating a hierarchical list (in emacs outline mode) of all of the elements listed in TDG (updated when i get the chance). when i'm done, i can post it if anyone's interested. the point is to list elements in

Re: DOCBOOK: hierarchical element reference list for docbook?

2002-07-27 Thread Dave Pawson
At 09:12 27/07/2002, Robert P. J. Day wrote: just fyi, here's the first part of it so you can see what i'm trying to do. it's in emacs outline mode at the moment: snip/ ... and so on. just a really quick reference to related elements. so nothing like this is available on the net somewhere

Re: DOCBOOK: Uniq values of ID attributes

2002-07-28 Thread Dave Pawson
At 05:34 28/07/2002, Vitaly Ostanin wrote: Hello! 1. I'm join modular DocBook/XML documents and get errors for already declared values of ID attributes (each in separated documents). It's possible to do common attribute id uniq not for all document, in some levels only ? No, the id values

Re: DOCBOOK: Uniq values of ID attributes

2002-07-28 Thread Dave Pawson
At 08:06 28/07/2002, Vitaly Ostanin wrote: It's possible to do common attribute id uniq not for all document, in some levels only ? No, the id values must be unique to the whole document you are parsing. Then authors of modular documents must to use long name values for id's. And this names

DOCBOOK: Re: Uniq values of ID attributes

2002-07-29 Thread Dave Pawson
At 00:20 29/07/2002, Vitaly Ostanin wrote: E.g. a chapter on subject pages, chapter id='pgs' then example id='pgs.ex.1' etc, so the names relate to the subject? Yes, but for separated documents we must to use: id=full.path.with.sub.parts.of.set.document-name.pgs.ex.1 for it be unique.

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Your version, docbook elements

2002-08-01 Thread Dave Pawson
At 14:44 01/08/2002, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Dave Pawson wrote: !DOCTYPE section PUBLIC -//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN /sgml/oasis/docbook412/docbookx.dtd !ENTITY tdgHome /documentation/tdg/en/html/ snip what about for 4.2 rather than 4.1.2? or is that a silly

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: hierarchical element reference list for docbook?

2002-08-02 Thread Dave Pawson
At 04:47 02/08/2002, Robert P. J. Day wrote: You dreamed of it, Norm did it :) the man is a stud. Oh I wouldn't go that far at least not in the hearing of his better half :-)

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

2002-08-12 Thread Dave Pawson
At 16:37 05/08/2002, David Cramer wrote: http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/docbook.html It's officially an alpha version of the book, but I have a feeling Norm will chime in and tell us whether all the new elements are there :) Some folks are also working on a handy reference card, tho it appears

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

2002-08-12 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:12 12/08/2002, David Cramer wrote: Sorry, I'm not. That comment was based only on a quick spot check comparing elements having the v4.2 icon at http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/docbook.html and the ref cards. I noticed that things like bibliocoverage, bibliorelation, bibliosource, were

Re: Fw: DOCBOOK: programlisting

2002-08-14 Thread Dave Pawson
At 19:17 14/08/2002, Bob Stayton wrote: If the 'pass through' of role, to 'class' in the html were available via the stylesheets, that would be easy... wouldn't it? Yes, it would be easy to pass it through. But the class attribute is already occupied by the element name, such as div

Re: Fw: DOCBOOK: programlisting

2002-08-15 Thread Dave Pawson
At 00:17 15/08/2002, Bob Stayton wrote: I notice that the HTML 4.0 spec says the class attribute can be a space-separated list of names. That sounds like you could have both element name and role value as class values in a div class attribute. But how do you write CSS to deal with that, and do

Re: Fw: DOCBOOK: programlisting

2002-08-16 Thread Dave Pawson
At 05:24 16/08/2002, ed nixon wrote: Before this is made a permanent feature, I'd like to suggest it be checked thoroughly against the modern browsers at least, i.e. 6 and above. (Sorry, but I've seen IE 5.x described as the Netscape 4 of the modern browser world.) In my experience, the CSS

DOCBOOK: Re: hierarchical element reference list for docbook?

2002-08-16 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:31 16/08/2002, Norman Walsh wrote: | I have a couple of remarks about it: | | - the capitalization in the list is not consistent Yes, this is a lingering issue as the book makes the transition from SGML (where case didn't matter and CamelCase was the order of the day) to XML (where it

Re: Fw: DOCBOOK: programlisting

2002-08-19 Thread Dave Pawson
At 23:49 18/08/2002, Jens Stavnstrup wrote: This looks ok on Linux, tried out on Konqueor 2.2.2 Opera 6.0.2 Mozilla 0.9.9 I think thats a fair summary of the browsers? I'm plus one for the change Norm. Regards DaveP

Re: DOCBOOK: URI/URL markup in DocBook

2002-08-20 Thread Dave Pawson
At 04:13 20/08/2002, Michael Smith wrote: During the next monthly DocBook TC telcon, the TC will discuss adding URL/URN markup to the DocBook DTD. So, can others on the list please comment on their needs/expectations regarding URN/URL markup? Specifically: * Would adding 'url' and 'urn' to

Re: DOCBOOK: Playing with annotations...

2002-08-20 Thread Dave Pawson
At 06:56 20/08/2002, Norman Walsh wrote: phraseHello Worldannotation class=noteA common test phrase/annotation/phrase Simple display of annotations puts them inline: Hello World[aAnnotation/a] +1, blatent. Discrete keeps them off the screen by percolating the link up to the containing

Re: DOCBOOK: Playing with annotations...

2002-08-22 Thread Dave Pawson
At 01:16 22/08/2002, Bob Stayton wrote: Footnotes are annotations, but not all annotations must be footnotes, even in print. I'm hoping the annotation mechanism might be used to put annotations next to paragraphs in a wide page margin. It looks like FO might even handle that using

Re: DOCBOOK: On the size of DocBook...

2002-09-05 Thread Dave Pawson
At 19:55 05/09/2002, Paul Grosso wrote: The tool is merely subsetting the list of tags it shows the user when the user goes to a menu of tags I can insert here. But it's still valid to insert (or have) any tag in the full DTD, and you can always click the button on the tool that says show me

Re: DOCBOOK: On the size of DocBook...

2002-09-06 Thread Dave Pawson
At 12:42 06/09/2002, Michael Smith wrote: Anyway, about the question at the end of number 3 above -- But what will that do to interchange? -- It seems like interchange isn't an issue if * the customized DTDs are strict subsets of the complete DTD * and users/user communities treat their

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: On the size of DocBook...

2002-09-06 Thread Dave Pawson
At 22:14 06/09/2002, Norman Walsh wrote: / Adam Turoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: [...] Taking things slightly out of order... | Just for kicks, how difficult would it be to refactor DocBook into | a simple core (based on Simplified DocBook, or the moral equivalent), | and implement

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: On the size of DocBook...

2002-09-06 Thread Dave Pawson
At 00:03 07/09/2002, Norman Walsh wrote: | I suspect it wouldn't be difficult at all. Most of that work is | already done in TDG. Identifying the most important core 25-50 | elements might be a little tricky, I tried to identify the core 25-50 elements, I wound up with more than 100. Start

Re: DOCBOOK: Referencing examples and figures

2002-09-11 Thread Dave Pawson
At 18:22 11/09/2002, Sebastian Bergmann wrote: Hi there. How do I best go about referencing figures and examples, so that I only get their number in the rendered output, when using the DocBook XSL stylesheets? Example: para Example reference/ shows ... /para

DOCBOOK: Re: resolver for xml catalogs

2002-09-12 Thread Dave Pawson
At 04:38 12/09/2002, Michael Smith wrote: Norman Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: / Zhuravleva, Tatyana [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I've been trying to download the URI resolver from | http://wwws.sun.com/software/xml/developers/resolver/ | for two weeks now; keep getting some

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: number continuation with orderedlist

2002-10-02 Thread Dave Pawson
At 12:47 02/10/2002, Norman Walsh wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 / Bob Stayton [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: | I noticed you also tried to use the inheritnum=inherit attribute | for any interior nested orderedlists. | That also does not appear to be implemented in the

Re: DOCBOOK: simple ToC question

2002-10-02 Thread Dave Pawson
At 18:35 02/10/2002, Federico Sacerdoti wrote: Hello, We here at SDSC love docbook as everyone does. I have a question about how we can make our HTML ToC look better. Currently, our Rocks cluster homepage, http://www.rocksclusters.org/, is very simple, and I feel hard to visually parse.

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Question about glossaries

2002-10-04 Thread Dave Pawson
At 11:55 04/10/2002, Norman Walsh wrote: | Why the content of the acronym elements are not rendered | when generating a glossary document? Because I have no idea how best to render them in the general case. But I'm open to suggestions. emcontent/em As a suggestion, html. Equivalent fo

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Subsets anyone?

2002-10-07 Thread Dave Pawson
At 00:27 07/10/2002, ed nixon wrote: I can't resist even though I should have done an archive search before posting: given that Topic Maps came out of the early DocBook efforts, what has been done by folks on the list or elsewhere to implement Topic Maps over DocBook and/or a collection of

Re: DOCBOOK: problems with install on windows platform

2002-10-09 Thread Dave Pawson
At 21:26 08/10/2002, Daniel Veillard wrote: Not really. Basically if you give a filename as an input it may have to be used later to build an URI from an URI-Reference and there things were turning nasty if you were using Windows path names like c:\foo\bar for example ../foo2 would give back

Re: DOCBOOK: problems with install on windows platform

2002-10-09 Thread Dave Pawson
At 18:50 09/10/2002, Daniel Veillard wrote: OK. I'm getting used to x: or file:///x: or similar not working. What I've not seen is a way of getting round it. Okay, then like for any libxslt/libxml2 bug tell the conditions where this give a problem, and I will try to fix it (or get it

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Markup for exercises

2002-10-10 Thread Dave Pawson
At 16:43 10/10/2002, Joachim Ziegler wrote: BTW, I've written a book about learning programming. It was coded in Latex (and in German). I'm currently evaluating DocBook as a basis for the second print of this book or for some other book about programming (mainly because I like the ability to

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Markup for exercises

2002-10-16 Thread Dave Pawson
At 15:45 16/10/2002, Togan Muftuoglu wrote: * Norman Walsh; [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 16 Oct, 2002 wrote: I'm personally quite unhappy with this proposal as it's written. It me too with what I see below :-) adds five fairly general sounding element names (setup, scenario, task, objective, and

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Marking Up Taxonomic Names

2002-10-19 Thread Dave Pawson
At 02:28 19/10/2002, Norman Walsh wrote: Carefully document his processing expectations. I mean, if you rely on foreignphrase or emphasis or even phrase with (or without) a role attribute to give special presentation, write that down somewhere. It'll save you hours of pain later when you give

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Markup for exercises

2002-10-12 Thread Dave Pawson
At 21:18 11/10/2002, Joachim Ziegler wrote: An exercise consists of a problem and eventually its solution(s). In a course, when it comes to an exercise, I might say Write a program that outputs HELLO WORLD. There is no question/answer involved here. If I were a student, I'd interpret that as:

Re: DOCBOOK: Using HTMLHELP

2002-11-06 Thread Dave Pawson
At 03:28 07/11/2002, David Novak wrote: I tried to fix all these bugs, and for some of the processors I almost succeeded but when I finally got messages like: Don't know how to chunk with SAXON 7.2 from Michael Kay I almost stopped to trust in XML world... AFAIK docbook doesn't work with xslt

Re: DOCBOOK: fo and slides

2002-11-08 Thread Dave Pawson
At 09:31 08/11/2002, Adrian Matellanes wrote: Hi all, I am currently using Norman's SLIDE doctype from CVS, everything works well but I cannot generate pdf handouts with 'fo' xsl. I get the following error: cannnot find /sourceforge/xsl/docbook.xsl Does anybody know how can I solve

Re: DOCBOOK: Favorite editing tool on windows based machine.

2002-11-24 Thread Dave Pawson
At 19:39 24/11/2002, Uten Navn wrote: If you are on a slow line and have Java installed (suppose you have to compile docbooks..:o) you definitely want jedit. It is a reasonable small download. 1.4MB beats the 17MB download for emacs. Just observe that the package manager requires a

Re: DOCBOOK: DocBook and M$ Word

2002-11-25 Thread Dave Pawson
At 13:06 25/11/2002, Anton N. Mescheryakov wrote: So, can anyone tell how can I work with such a boss and still use DocBook to write and publish? Shoot him :-) I know some anti-Word tools out there, but how good actualy they are? If he doesn't want to listen, no matter what you say, you

Re: DOCBOOK: Request for comments: adding a Fileoutput element (RFE613293)

2002-11-28 Thread Dave Pawson
At 15:35 28/11/2002 +0900, Michael Smith wrote: The DocBook Technical Committee would like to ask for comments from readers of this list about a request for an enhancement to the DocBook DTD, RFE 613293, 'Generalize programlisting'[1], which proposes that the DTD be enhanced in some way to

RE: DOCBOOK: Image callouts supported by XSL-FO stylesheet?

2002-11-28 Thread Dave Pawson
example programlisting format=linespecific lt;fo:block id={@id} co id=l11/ lt;xsl:apply-templates/lt;/fo:block lt;/xsl:template lt;xsl:template match=xref lt;fo:inline lt;fo:basic-link internal-destination={@idref} co id=l2/ Chapter /programlisting

Re: DOCBOOK: example of docbook for FAQ?

2002-12-01 Thread Dave Pawson
:15 Dave Pawson -- !DOCTYPE webpage SYSTEM ../nw/docbook/website3/website.dtd webpage navto=yes id=dbroot head titleDocbook Frequently Asked Questions/title summaryDocbook FAQ/summary keywordsdocbook faq FAQ/keywords /head qandaset qandaentry question para/para /question answer

Re: DOCBOOK: docbook provided xsl stylesheets and ant?

2002-12-02 Thread Dave Pawson
At 23:12 01/12/2002 +, Joseph Panico wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use the xsl stylesheets (docbook.xsl) from the DocBook open repository with the ant 'style' task. By default, ant invokes Xalan and Xalan chokes on some XPath statement in those stylesheets. Supposedly Saxon will work, but

Re: DOCBOOK: Re: Request for comments: adding a Fileoutput element(RFE 613293)

2002-12-07 Thread Dave Pawson
At 16:35 06/12/2002 -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: It really seems like we shouldn't need all of these: programlisting, screen, synopsis, literallayout, and verbatim. How does this sound: 1. Add 'verbatim'. !ELEMENT verbatim (...) !ATTLIST verbatim class(normal|monospaced) monospaced

Re: AW: DOCBOOK: OT -- need more info on website.dtd

2003-01-26 Thread Dave Pawson
At 14:06 26/01/2003 +0100, Jiri Kuthan wrote: At 01:53 PM 1/26/2003, Robert P. J. Day wrote: you can email me offline with your offerings, unless there are others who are also interested. thanks. Others are interested, I am :-) please email me too. If questions are answered on the list, I'll

Re: DOCBOOK: OT -- need more info on website.dtd

2003-01-27 Thread Dave Pawson
At 02:17 27/01/2003 -0800, Bob Stayton wrote: You are in luck. I just uploaded the new version of my Using the DocBook XSL Stylesheets, and it includes a new section on using Website. http://www.sagehill.net/xml/docbookxsl/PreCustom.html#Website OK, I give in. Bob, would you put me down

[docbook] namespace markup

2007-03-05 Thread Dave Pawson
I'm writing about XML. I can identify elements, attributes but AFAIK I can't identify namespaces semantically? Any suggestions please? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk - To unsubscribe, e

Re: [docbook] namespace markup

2007-03-07 Thread Dave Pawson
semantically? Any suggestions 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] regards -- Dave Pawson

Re: [docbook] namespace markup

2007-03-08 Thread Dave Pawson
is not tag, nor other part of markup. I am talking about a namespace... so uri class='namespace'x.y.z/uri seems good to me. I can style it as needed using css. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk

Re: [docbook] namespace markup

2007-03-08 Thread Dave Pawson
of the markup in a document. If I want to say I have a namespace http://example.com and a prefix bob: How should I mark it up. Back to you Bob. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk

Re: [docbook] namespace markup

2007-03-08 Thread Dave Pawson
namespace name is not a type of URI. Tell you what Peter. I'll ask the stupid questions. You come back with the 'right' answers, to guide us, and the db comittee can think about it for a while. Agreed? regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk

Re: [docbook] docbook5 and adding elements (long)

2007-03-17 Thread Dave Pawson
/msg00107.html 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] v5 feature request.

2007-03-17 Thread Dave Pawson
/ ref name=db.technical.inlines/ ref name=db.markup.inlines/ /choice ref name=db.co/!-- DP. Error Duplicated below? -- ref name=db.co/ /choice /define A duplicate reference to db.co regards regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http://www.dpawson.co.uk

Re: [docbook] docbook5 and adding elements (long)

2007-03-17 Thread Dave Pawson
sure you'll get help. 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] v5 feature request.

2007-03-18 Thread Dave Pawson
Jirka Kosek wrote: Dave Pawson wrote: Could I request a (negative) addition to the schema please. define name=db._any a:documentationAny element from almost any namespace/a:documentation element anyName except nsName/ nsName ns=http

Re: [docbook] Callout, footnotes, annotations.

2007-03-19 Thread Dave Pawson
/para /callout /calloutlist /example No reason I can't have 5 callouts, each specifying the same co element? Does that helpl? btw, I hope you have the appropriate customisation in place, to use the Unicode glyphs instead of just numbers? regards regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO

[docbook] v5 version information.

2007-04-07 Thread Dave Pawson
From a quick look, it appears as if there is no version information in the .rng file for the docbook schema itself? !-- DocBook V5.0CR3-- !-- See http://docbook.org/ns/docbook -- Seems the only reference? I'd find it helpful if it were available. regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ

Re: [docbook] How to decrease font in the code examples

2007-05-16 Thread Dave Pawson
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] Indicating recipients of a document?

2007-06-06 Thread Dave Pawson
something? Is it a case for a little local customization of the Docbook schema? Variant on dedication? Acknowledgments? contractsponsor? Not many books 'acknowledge' the recipient... not many are written for one person / group of people! regards -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. http

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