Re: [docbook] Docbook combined with a website

[Michael A Nachbaur <mike@nachbaur.com>]

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On July 5, 2004 01:53 am, Tobias Reif wrote:
> On Sun 2004-07-04 Frans Englich wrote:
> > > > Is it possible to simply view the docbook files of the web, or
> > > > do they need to be processed first? (can they be viewed as they
> > > > are in a browser, or do they need to be exported into a viewing
> > > > format)
> > >
> > > I suggest (X)HTML and PDF. You could for example use the
> > > docbook.sf.net XSLTs, a manual is available at
> >
> > Which means I don't have to export it to separate files
>
> No I didn't say or imply that.
>
> > - I just mentions the XSL stylesheet of my choice in the docbook
> > file and its rendered on the fly to HTML. Right? :)
>
> This would work eg in cases where you can expect the browser to know
> XSLT, and where you have one output file. But typically the
> transformation is much more complex, one document gets transformed to
> many interlinked XHTML files for example; and you might want to
> support older browsers as well.

You could also use an application server that understands and can process XSLT 
pipelines, like AxKit (http://www.axkit.org).

I use this to render both a DocBook <book/> and DocBook <slides/> documents to 
both HTML and PDF.  See http://oscon.nachbaur.com/2004/slides.xml.  The HTML 
frames are all generated dynamically, and the PDF icon in the bottom-right of 
the screen is dynamically generated using FOP in an AxKit pipeline.

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Michael A. Nachbaur <mike@nachbaur.com>
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