RE: [docbook] DocBook on the Web

["Peter Ring" <PRI@magnus.dk>]

CSS-styled XML documents, including some DocBook documents, can also be rendered for printing, either through conversion to XSL-FO or directly to PDF. Useful for eg. rendering to PDF on-the-fly. See:

  http://www.re.be/css2xslfo/
  http://www.princexml.com/overview/

Both applications extend CSS a bit in order to support running headers, footnotes etc.

Complex DocBook documents would not be suitable for 'raw' rendering this way. But then again, many DocBook documents are actually close to an architectural form of XHTML.

Kind regards
Peter Ring

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elliotte Harold [mailto:elharo@metalab.unc.edu]
> Sent: 1. november 2006 11:51
> 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.
> 
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