Re: [docbook-apps] improve DocBook's HTML output

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Dave,
It is not my intention that the stylesheet generates an XML file for the 
CSS.  Rather, an XML file containing CSS code is written and maintained by 
hand in the SVN archive and included in the distribution.

The file that the param 'docbook.css.source' points to looks like this [not 
real styles]:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<style>
div.table {
  font-size: smaller;
  background-color: #EEEEEE;
}
etc.
</style>

So it is almost a CSS file, except that it has a <style> element wrapper to 
make it well-formed XML.  That wrapper is necessary for the file to be read 
by the XSLT document() function, which cannot read text files such as 
straight CSS files.

It is a "source" file in that it is not a real CSS file. I hesitated to name 
the param 'docbook.css.xml' because that might get confused with the 
filename, which is 'docbook.css.xml'.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Pawson" <davep@dpawson.co.uk>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 12:40 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] improve DocBook's HTML output


> On 04/12/09 07:28, Bob Stayton wrote:
>> Thanks to all for the helpful feedback.  Based on that, here is my new
>> proposal for DocBook-generated CSS. I'm trying to balance flexibility
>> against
>> too much complexity. I've got it down to just four new params.
>>
>> 1. Add a new param 'make.clean.html', which when set to 1 will cause the
>> HTML stylesheet to output HTML that requires CSS for default styling. The
>> default value of this param will initially be zero to preserve current
>> behavior.
>>
>> 2. Add a new param 'docbook.css.source', which specifies the CSS source
>> filename (with <style> root element) for generating the default CSS 
>> output
>> file.
>
>>
>> Let me know if any of this is unclear and needs further explanation.
>>
>
>
> Possible source of confusion Bob.
> Come to this clean and the stylesheets using 'my' css file and
> the stylesheets generating an XML syntax CSS could be confusing?
>
> docbook.css.source ? From the description (I'm not fully up to speed
> on this thread) it isn't a CSS file? The param name makes it sound like 
> one. A more descriptive name perhaps?
>
>
> regards
>
>
> regards
>
> -- 
> Dave Pawson
> XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
> http://www.dpawson.co.uk
>
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