Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: ant and website ?

[Dave Pawson <dpawson@nildram.co.uk>]

At 18:08 01/12/2002 +0900, Shawn wrote:
>I am happily using ant to build my html (thanks to dpawson
>http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/ant.html ) but don't understand it's
>relationship to website.
>
>When trying to build a website (to see what it's like and how it's different
>from chunking my html output), I learned that the website pages need an ID
>such as <webpage id="test1" lang="de">.    I'm kind of new to this all, so
>it seems to me like website pages are not docbook pages anymore.
>
>My questions are :
>
>1)  Is website significantly better than the html produced through reg
>docbook?

www.dpawson.co.uk is all website.

website is a specialisation layer on top of docbook, so I don't think
you lose anything by using website.


>2)  Is it possible to build a website site from docbook xml pages by
>processing them with xsl (to add the webpage id for instance)?

Yes.

>I need to produce pdf files too, so I have to stay with and author in
>docbook.


That looks interesting. Perhaps have the basic content in entities,
then include into a website framework or something else for pdf?

I don't use pdf for the website stuff, hence not considered that.

>   I'm just doing a users manual though so maybe I don't need what a
>website would have to offer.

Possibly not; no.

>   I just saw the create layout and create
>website tasks in the ant build file and wondered if I should be using them,
>why they were there, and if they didn't already build a website from regular
>docbook xml.

Sounds about right.

regards DaveP