Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: comments on "Using the DocBook XSL Stylesheets"

[Adam DiCarlo <adam@onshored.com>]

Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com> writes:

>   Hum, you should not use file path anyway in the instances of the
> documents or in the tools. if you use the stylesheet PI or even on the
> command line for xsltproc it's more reliable/portable to use the
> canonical URL for the stylesheet 
>     http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/html/docbook.xsl    
> then if there is a local instance, it should be registered in the XML
> catalog and the remapping will/should be transparent. This is especially
> important when such URL are embedded into document instances.
>   It may take a bit of time before every tools and systems set up the
> catalogs but really that's the best situation,

Very true and an even better recommendation.

Speaking of XML catalogs, this is not currently supported in Debian
but we're working out a system to do this with DTD and stylesheet
packages registering their catalogs centrally (xml-base pkg).
Discussion on this is taking place on debian-sgml list and I think
Ardo van Rangelrooij is doing the first pass of this using libxml2
from Gnome.

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