Michele Z. wrote:
I have tried your product and it appears to be doing what we need. I say 'appears' because I didn't manage to exercise all the features we need, most notably the Styles in Microsoft Word. The reason for this is that we generate FO files from a DocBook compliant XML using DocBook XSL at http://wiki.docbook.org/DocBookXslStylesheets
This is expected when you convert DocBook documents to DOCX.
I read (most of) the detailed explanation provided at: http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/_distrib/doc/user/user_styles.html and it still appears to me (but I am no expert in these matters) that the FO file itself require a modification to have things like <fo:inline*xfc:user-style="Warning"*> included in it.
Yes, that's right. You have understood the issue.
Do you happen to know if anybody already took the pain of modifying/enhancing the DocBook XSL files so that the generated FO can be processed with your product and user styles can be obtained?
Nobody did that, not even us, XMLmind. It would be a long, tedious and error prone task given the size and complexity of the DocBook XSL stylesheets.
I must add that given the way the DocBook XSL stylesheets are written (i.e. no systematic use of xsl:attribute-sets), I see no way to automate this process (i.e. use an XSLT to automatically generate a variant of the DocBook XSL stylesheets making use of xfc:user-style).
We know for sure that some of our customers use the xfc:user-style feature but they do so in their own, in-house, XSL stylesheets, which always happen to have moderate size and complexity.
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