DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: newbie help please

[madhu <bmadi_1@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Phil shelton wrote:
> I have managed to write and validate some DocBook XML. However I do not know
> how to turn this into some print or html.
> 

> Phill
here it is:
you need to have 
xt /xp or saxon on your machine which in turn needs java installed on your
machine you need to have norman's stylesheet xsl version ( latest must be
ver1.18) you need to have the path to xt/xp  or saxon set in your /etc/profile
(linux)  or the CLASSPATH in windows
then at your prompt
( xalan wasn't not working properly with normans stylesheets FOR ME and the
probelm didn't appaear to be in norman's stylesheet TO ME for this)

for xt:

$java com.jclark.xsl.sax.Driver your *.xml file path to normans stylesheet( fo
for print and html/xhtml for html)  output file

for saxon:
$java  com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet   [options]   source-document   stylesheet   [
params..]

note for saxon the output file has given as [option] i think -o filename

if you dont/cant want to set the environement variable in your system
properties  you can and have to give the classpath explicitly with your commands
like java -cp (path to xt/saxon) and the rest of the commands as described above

please see the documentation of xt/saxon for more details
i think you can  download xt from james clark's site www.jclark.com 

and saxon from here:

http://users.iclway.co.uk/mhkay/saxon/saxon.zip


hope this helps

regards

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maddy
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