Re: [docbook-apps] RE: Saxon CE

[Philip Fearon <pgfearo@googlemail.com>]

Many thanks to all for your comments - some wise words!

Above all, I think this will be a good learning process - from your
comments  I now understand the need to approach this with a fair
amount of caution. I will try to use as much of the existing code base
as possible, but make the feature compromises necessary to make this a
real solution for the client. In many ways, this is the same approach
used when porting server-side Saxon to the client.

Whilst the current Saxonica site does comprise a large number of small
XML files these are actually split from larger files that correspond
reasonably well to DocBook chapters, there's also a single catalog
file that references each 'chapter' - this, along with Saxonica's
existing XSLT resources to generate DocBook means that I believe we're
in pretty good starting position for the challenges ahead in this next
stage.

We have some great ideas on how to add new features to the site once
we have client-side XSLT 2.0 processing, but one step at a time...

I will keep you posted, and also come back as and when issues arise,

thanks again

Phil


On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote:
> On 19.6.2012 18:40, Philip Fearon wrote:
>
>> Any thoughts, is starting with the github DocBook XSLT 2.0 project the best bet?
>
> As Bob already said if you use only subset of DocBook markup and are
> concerned about speed then writing simple stylesheet from scratch might
> be the best idea.
>
> On the other hand if you want to cover all of DocBook and have support
> for localization, etc. then using XSLT 2.0 stylesheets from GitHub are
> the right choice for Saxon-CE.
>
> Of course some customitation is needed as stylesheets were primarly
> targeted for off-line usage where you convert one large DocBook document
> into one large HTML file or set of smaller interlinked HTML pages
> (chunked output).
>
> To my knowledge current saxonica site is composed from large number of
> small XML files where each XML file corresponds to HTML page in browser
> and there is navigation generated between those page. In your case you
> have to decide if you want to retain this approach -- then you will have
> to extend existing stylesheets with additional code to generate
> navigation. Or you can have complete site in one large DocBook XML and
> use interactive features of Saxon-CE to render only part of document and
> map navigation to AJAX-like refreshes of page. In this case modifaction
> of chunking code to use interactive features of Saxon-CE will be
> necessary as well. But I think it is cruical to decide on this before
> designing the best architecture.
>
> Anyway I would be interested in watching your progress and if my
> knowledge and time will permit I will try to help answers related to
> XSLT 2.0 stylesheets and DocBook in general.
>
>                                Jirka
>
> BTW, congrats for releasing 1.0 of Saxon-CE.
>
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