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Subject: RE: [docbook] DocBook on the Web
I am not to fond of products, which extends a standard "to much", and it really should not be necessary (althogh I admit, not all browser may support all CSS elements yet). Remember the fun battle last year between Norm and Håkon Wium caused by an offhand remark [1] by Norm, which resulted in the following very nice articles [2] and [3]. Regards, Jens [1] http://norman.walsh.name/2004/12/07/webarchPdf [2] http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/01/19/print.html [3] http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/02/09/cssorxsl.html On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Peter Ring wrote: > 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. > > > <snip/> >
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