Re: [docbook] Transitioning SGML docbook to XML, preserving formatting

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sco.com>]

On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 11:13:53PM +0200, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> I've got a bunch of SGML docbook (4.1.2) that I'm trying to move to XML 
> docbook. Up till now, I've been processing the SGML with jade and the cygnus 
> stylesheets to produce HTML. I'm trying to move to xsltproc and the standard 
> modular stylesheets from sourceforge.
> 
> While processing is fine, I'm having some trouble fine-tuning the HTML output. 
> In particular:
> 
> 1) <colspec colwidth="2in"> doesn't seem to affect the HTML output at all 
> unless I set <xsl:param name="use.extensions">1</xsl:param>,  in which case I 
> get the error message
> 
> No adjustColumnWidths function available.
>
> 2) <sidebar> elements were surrounded by a border in the
> jade output. Is there 
> a way to copy this behavior? 

For HTML output, you can do it with a CSS stylesheet
because the sidebar is put inside a <div class="sidebar">.
Something like:

div.sidebar {
      border: 1px solid black;
      background-color: #DDDDDD;
      padding: 6px;
}


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