DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Customizing DocBook to Produce a real URL Tree

[Shlomi Fish <shlomif@vipe.technion.ac.il>]

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Ian Castle wrote:

> With DSSSL (and I imagine XSL) it would be perfectly possible to generate the
> node names... the problem would be creating the directories - as there are no
> facilities in DSSSL to do file manipulation on the underlying file system.
>
> However, DSSSL is extensible so you could create an external procedure to do
> this for you.
>
> There would be quite a fair bit of work involved for a novice - and a few days
> for an expert.
>

Would it be possible to scan the XML beforehand (say with a Perl script)
and make the directory structure for jade, a priori?

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 4:20 pm, Janning Vygen wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 26. November 2002 16:38 schrieb Dennis Grace:
> > > Shlomi Fish asks:
> > >
> > > I'm not happily using the db2* tools to convert DocBook/XML into
> > > various formats. However, I noticed that jade put all the HTML file
> > > into one directory and calls them with obscure names such as:
> > >
> > > book1.html
> > > c16.html
> > > x208.html
> > >
> > > etc. Now what I want is that it will be real URL Tree:
> > >
> > >      (Root)
> > > [id1]
> > > [id1]/[id2]
> > > [id1]/[id2]/[id3]
> > > [id4]
> > >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > My question: how can I customize the DSSSL (or XSL while we're at
> > > it) stylesheets to produce such a tree? (and still maintain
> > > prev-next-up link consistency and link to the same CSS stylesheet)
> > >
> > > <<<<<
> > >
> > > For the DSSSLs, in your customization layer you need to set:
> > >
> > >    (define %use-id-as-filename%
> > >     #t)
> > >
> > > For XSL, two params do the task you're trying to assign. If you set
> > >
> > > <xsl:param name="use.id.as.filename" select="1">
> > >
> > > the id attribute will be used for all chunks except the root, which
> > > will be named index.html. If you would rather set the root filename
> > > to the id, set
> > >
> > > <xsl:param name="root.filename" select="@id">
> >
> > Thats not what he asked for, everything is still in one directory.
> >
> > kind regards
> > janning
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Shlomi Fish        shlomif@vipe.technion.ac.il
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