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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)
>
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>> -----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
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