RE: [docbook-apps] processing modular docbook

[Tim Arnold <Tim.Arnold@sas.com>]

hi,
I just wanted to reply with the timings I found. For the book that contains about 3,000 pages I used the 1.75.1 namespace aware DocBook XSL stylesheets (xhmtl chunking templates) with
1) no customization
2) my customizations to create the xhtml, 
3) my customizations with some additional files created (toc.xml, index.xml, *.hh* files).

1) Straight XHTML: 44 minutes
2) Customized:     55 minutes
3) Custom plus add'l files: 59 minutes

My customizations change the chunking/filenaming scheme and puts index primary terms as keywords in each file.

For a much smaller book (300 pages) I get:
1) 37 seconds
2) 30 seconds*
3) 43 seconds

* I have no idea why my customization is faster here and slower on the bigger book.


Do these times sound about right? If so, I guess it's going to take over a couple of hours to do the big 8,000 page book.

thanks,
--Tim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Kost [mailto:ensonic@hora-obscura.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2010 2:44 PM
> To: Tim Arnold
> Cc: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] processing modular docbook
> 
> hi Tim,
> Am 06.04.2010 21:26, schrieb Tim Arnold:
> > Hi,
> > I have a document that when printed is about 8000 pages. Because of the
> time it takes to process, I'd like to be able to process each chapter
> separately, but the more I read, the more I doubt the possibility.
> >
> > My guess is that if I decide to try it, I'll have to set the numbering for
> chapters/tables/examples/figures in each chapter and set up a granular olink
> database to handle the cross-refs. And  create the book-level toc, index,
> any HTMLHelp files by some other means.
> >
> > I haven't yet tried processing this particular document, but a 3,000 page
> doc takes about 2 hours on  my FreeBSD machine. The processing uses only one
> of its cpus of course, and neither memory or diskspace is a limitation--the
> processing seems to be cpu-bound only.
> >
> > Any advice ?
> >
> > thanks,
> > --Tim Arnold
> >
> 
> one thing that helped me to save a lot of time in bigger api doc project in
> gtk-doc is to override the l10n templates in my customization layer (I could
> do
> it as the docs are only in one language (english)).
> 
> Stefan