Hi Hussein, Thank you very much for your reply. It does provide me with detailed and helpful information. It seems that Docbook's modular document is less handy than DITA map file. I have not decided whether to use DITA or Docbook, because I am still investigating which is more easily to be customized for our company.
Here I want to consult one new thing with you.:) In XEP rendered PDF documents, the title of the elements like Table of Contents, Section, Chapter, and Note/Tip... are always preserved in English. However, my documents are written in Chinese, so I definitely need them to be localized and displayed as Chinese. I have looked through the DITA stylesheets, but it is frustrating that I could not find the way to customize them into Chinese. I am sorry for brining you so much questions. Best regards and thanks, Iris ---------------------------------------- Shared Engineering Services Tel: +86 28 85303678 -----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2013 6:22 PM To: Iris Lin (CS) Cc: '[email protected]' Subject: Re: [XXE] Does DocBook support a bookmap file On 04/09/2013 09:02 AM, Iris Lin (CS) wrote: > > I want to know if DocBook support a map file like DITA map file that support > xref to some section (topic) files, and then I can output PDF directly from > the map file. > Not yet. This feature, called assembly, is part of DocBook 5.1. DocBook 5.1 is still beta (see http://docbook.org/). We are committed to fully support DocBook 5.1 as soon as it is officially released. > I have tried to create a DocBook Book file, but it does not support linking > to a section file. > You probably want to create a *modular* book, that is a book including chapters or appendices by *reference*, which themselves include sections by reference. (In fact, you may organize a modular book in any way you want.) How to do this is explained in this tutorial: Creating a modular document http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_tutorial/modular_doc/index.html Screencast of the tutorial: http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_tutorial/modular_doc/video/modular_doc.html -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
