Re: [docbook-apps] callout-lists and HTML/PDF creation with xsltproc/libxslt

["Michael(tm) Smith" <smith@sideshowbarker.net>]

Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert.spam@gmx.net>, 2007-02-27 08:59 +0100:

> Yeah. This could have been a solution :) I just have one problem with
> that: The extensions do not exist on Debian systems. Unfortunately I
> cannot provide them with the docbook-xsl package. Maybe it could be a
> way to provide the extensions (and only the extensions, not the whole
> saxon.jar) as separate java archive (something like
> saxon-nwalsh-ext.jar). But I don't know, if this is possible or if the
> Saxon version in docbook-xsl's SVN is heavily patched.

We don't actually have a Saxon version in our svn -- the only
thing we have are source files for the DocBook XSL Java
extensions, which is what the jar files in docbook-xsl are built
from. Users need to separately install Saxon (for example, Debian
users need to install libsaxon-java) in order to use Saxon.

> I should ask our pkg-java team. They should probably know.

If you can, please forward or Cc me on any correspondence you have
with them about the DocBook XSL Java extensions. Putting together
a upstream package of just the extensions separate from the
stylesheets should not be too much work, but I want to make sure
it'll meet whatever the Java packaging policy guidelines Debian
and other distros may have.

  --Mike