On 08/19/2014 09:17 AM, Camille Bégnis wrote:
with DocBook 5.1 in the final leap of formal approval by OASIS, what are
your plans for adding support for it into XXE?
We are committed to fully support DocBook 5.1 in XXE. However we don't
feel there is any rush to implement this support and this, for the two
following reasons:
1) We don't think that much XML authors are impatient to use DocBook 5.1
in XXE. (Anyway, this kind of person, eager to use ``bleeding edge
technologies'', are likely to purchase oXygen, not XXE.)
2) Having implemented DITA support, we know what editing facilities to
add to XXE in order to support DocBook 5.1. However, converting DocBook
5.1 to other formats still poses us a problem:
The ``assembler'' (docbook-xsl-ns-1.78.1/assembly/assemble.xsl) which
compiles the topics specified in a DocBook 5.1 assembly in order to
generate a monolithic DocBook document seems to be incomplete (no
relationships, no filterin, no filterout, etc).
So what should we do:
(1) Neverthless use assemble.xsl as is?
(2) Improve existing assemble.xsl?
(3) Wait for the next release of the DocBook XSL stylesheets, hoping
that assemble.xsl will be made conformant?
(4) Write in XSLT 2.0 (or in Java) our own, fully conformant, version of
assemble.xsl?
Possible answers:
(1) is out of question.
(2) We did that for the first version of epub/epub.xsl. We submitted our
extensive changes to the DocBook XSL stylesheets dev team, but the
original author of epub.xsl had his own ideas about what to do and that
gave us nothing at all.
For now, we are more or less expecting (3) to happen.
Note that if (4) seems to be the only way to go, then we'll do it.
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