Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Customize (extend) DTD and XSL stylesheet

["Terje J. Hanssen" <nteknikk@monet.no>]

Thank you Bob for your reply and the link to your interesting recources, 
which I already have downloaded and printed out. Now I have a lot more 
to study to get a better understanding of this matter. Later on I expect 
to come back with more concrete follow-up questions.

Terje


Bob Stayton wrote:

>On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:41:05AM +0100, Terje J. Hanssen wrote:
>
>>I am searching to find out how to possibly customize (extend) the 
>>DocBook DTD and XSL stylesheet to apply it on my XML documents/ebook. I 
>>need to structure the text content with my own defined additional XML 
>>elements and attributes, to prepare it for smart content search.
>>
>>I have looked in chpt 4 and 5 of 'DocBook: The Definitive Guide', the 
>>article on xml.com and the DocBook XSL stylesheet docs. But I feel I 
>>need some simple examples and/or advices to clarify, especially 
>>regarding extending the DTD with a few additonal XML elements and 
>>attributes.
>>
>>Do you know how or possible where I can find additional info/docs on 
>>this area?
>>
>
>My site (www.sagehill.net) has two additional resources
>that might help you.
>
>- LiveDTD is a tool for converting a DTD to a hypertext
>document.  It lets you jump around the DocBook DTD to
>see where something is declared.  I wrote it specifically
>to maintain my sanity while creating a customized DocBook
>DTD.  In the Demonstration section, there is an example
>of a customized version of DocBook 3 that you can examine.
>You can download the livedtd.pl Perl script and apply
>it to your own DTD as you develop it.
>
>- A slide presentation "Customizing the DocBook DTD" that
>I presented at an O'Reilly conference.  It covers much
>the same territory as The Definitive Guide. But the key
>pages are "Order is important", which indicate in which
>modular docbook file to make specific kinds of changes.
>
>