Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XSL print StyleSheets

[Christoph Steinbeck <steinbeck@ice.mpg.de>]

Thanks very much for the quick answer.

> He has an experimental version that
> does "chunking", that is, writing to many smaller HTML
> files.  It uses a different stylesheet driver file.  Instead
> of specifying the html/docbook.xsl driver file as your
> stylesheet, specify html/xtchunk.xsl as your stylesheet.

Thats exactly what I needed to know. And it works, kind of. 

> Keep in mind that Norm's XSL stylesheets are still in
> development.  

I'm well aware of that. The differences and shortcomings of the results
processed by XLS when compared with the DSSSL results are obvious. On
the other hand, as an open-source developer, I highly appreciate the
immense efforts that Norm and others have put into both pathes. I did
not mean to criticize but just needed a little help where there was no
documentation. Documentation _is_ lacking but as always the products to
be documented come first, which is a good idea :-)

Cheers, 

Chris

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Bob Stayton wrote:
> 
> > From sco.sco.com!ice.mpg.de!steinbeck Thu May  4 12:07:34 2000
> >
> > But another problem bugs me more: There must be simple switch to make xt
> > + ../html/docbook.xsl produce multiple html files instead of dumping one
> > large pile of text to stdout. I searched extensivly but did not find a
> > solution. Only some cryptic explanation :-) on
> > http://www.jclark.com/xml/xt.html.
> > Shouldn't there just be one nice little commandline switch, or am I
> > getting something completely wrong.
> 
> Keep in mind that Norm's XSL stylesheets are still in
> development.  He has an experimental version that
> does "chunking", that is, writing to many smaller HTML
> files.  It uses a different stylesheet driver file.  Instead
> of specifying the html/docbook.xsl driver file as your
> stylesheet, specify html/xtchunk.xsl as your stylesheet.
> 
> I think Norm is keeping this experimental feature separate
> at this point because it makes use of the XSL extension
> xt:document implemented only in Clark's XT (hence the name
> xtchunk).  Not everyone uses XT as their XSLT processor.
> 
> The chunking behavior (where it breaks into a new file) is
> currently hardwired as described at the top of
> xtchunk.xsl.  Norm said he plans to make that more flexible
> in the future using parameters, but for now you will have
> to modify xtchunk.xsl to change it.  Be prepared to learn a
> lot of XSL if you want to do that.
> 
> bobs
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