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Subject: Re: [docbook] DocBook on the Web
I just brought it up in Explorer 6.0 and it looks good there, too. Nice job Jon and Ken. Dick Hamilton rlhamilton@frii.com > Hi everyone, > > Since the question came up, I thought I would announce that the OASIS > UBL 2.0 Specification has been migrated to DocBook and is available as > both HTML and XML (DocBook). I can load it fine locally in Firefox, but > can't display via the web. IE(7), however, seems to be happy to chew on > it until it can be dislayed: > http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cs-UBL-2.0/UBL-2.0.xml > (produced by Jon Bosak and Ken Holman) > > Regards, > > Mary > > --------------------------------------------------- > Mary P McRae > Manager of TC Administration, OASIS > email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org > web: www.oasis-open.org > phone: 603.232.9090 > > Register for OASIS Adoption Forum: > "Managing Secure Interactions in Sector Applications" > 28 - 29 Nov 2006, London > www.oasis-open.org/events/adoptionforum2006/ > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Elliotte Harold [mailto:elharo@metalab.unc.edu] >> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 5:51 AM >> To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org >> Subject: [docbook] DocBook on the Web >> >> Reading Norm's latest post >> <http://norman.walsh.name/2006/10/30/openMind> I wondered, has anyone >> tried publishing straight DocBook on the Web? i.e. >> sending real DocBook XML + (CSS | XSLT) to the client; not doing the >> conversion server side or earlier and sending HTML to the client? If >> so, what were your experiences. >> >> My suspicion is that even assuming client side support there are >> several >> problems: >> >> 1. There are no straight CSS stylesheets for DocBook. >> >> 2. The XSLT stylesheets are too complex to reasonably render client >> side. They also likely rely on extension functions browser engines >> don't have. >> >> 3. Anything beyond an article is too large for one page, and it's not >> really possible to chunk pages on the client side. >> >> Are these fixable? Is it worth fixing them? Or is it just that >> prerendering to HTML simply is the better option and we should stop >> worrying about it? >> >> -- >> Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition >> Just Published! >> http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ >> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/ca >> feaulaitA/ >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-help@lists.oasis-open.org >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-help@lists.oasis-open.org > >
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