Carl Castro wrote: > I realize that you do support rendering semantic tags via CSS. Do you know > of any techniques for minimizing overhead in maintaining both this CSS and > XSL transforming semantic tags to DocBook tags? I am wondering whether the > CSS and XSL transforms might be generated (CSS) or configured (XSL) based on > common settings.
This seems to be a good idea. However we have never done that manually for our own needs and we don't provide tools to help you doing that. --- PS: I don't know if this could help you but XXE supports something called *format plug-ins*. (See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/docs/dev/ar01s10.html) In your case, if you take the time to write a format plug-in in Java, your users could directly open XML documents containing semantic tags as DocBook. Then, they'll directly edit the ``DocBook view''. And finally they'll save the ``DocBook view'' as a semantic document. The user will think that she/he authors DocBook but in fact, transparently for her/him, through the use of a format plug-in, she/he will edit semantic documents. The format plug-in would use your existing "Semantic tags-->DocBook" XSLT transform to open a document. You'll have to write a "DocBook-->Semantic tags" XSLT transform to save a document. If this is possible (i.e. if there is a way to map DocBook to your semantic documents), you'll have a very elegant, easy to maintain, solution.
