Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook HTML and MHT Conversion Issues

["Chris Chiasson" <chris@chiasson.name>]

Does the problem with the catalog references being relative to the
stylesheets go away using the experimental namespaced stylesheets?

On 10/4/06, Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:
> Just to follow up on this, if you are using DocBook5, then the stripNS mode
> used to process a DB5 document with the current stylesheets also adds an
> absolute path xml:base to the root element of your document before
> processing it.  Actually, only Saxon currently does this because it
> requires a processor extension to fetch the uri of the document being
> processed.  When keep.relative.image.uris is set to zero (the default),
> then images are resolved relative to that xml:base.
>
> If you process a DB5 document with the experimental stylesheets I posted
> information about yesterday, then the stripNS mode is not necessary because
> the document is processed with DB5-matching templates.  So absolute
> xml:base is added, and no absolute uris are generated, regardless of the
> keep.relative.image.uris parameter.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> DocBook Consulting
> bobs@sagehill.net
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
> To: "Chris Chiasson" <chris@chiasson.name>; "Mauritz Jeanson"
> <mj@johanneberg.com>
> Cc: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>; "Miller, Ray (Centech)"
> <Ray.Miller@va.gov>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 1:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook HTML and MHT Conversion Issues
>
>
> > Chris,
> > It isn't always the case when you process a file with Saxon (and Xerces
> > and the Jakarta XML commons resolver) that it writes out full paths for
> > images. Can you provide more information?
> > Is this with a DocBook 5 document?
> > Have you tried setting  the parameter keep.relative.image.uris to 1 (zero
> > is the default)?
> >
> > Bob Stayton
> > Sagehill Enterprises
> > DocBook Consulting
> > bobs@sagehill.net
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris@chiasson.name>
> > To: "Mauritz Jeanson" <mj@johanneberg.com>
> > Cc: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>; "Miller, Ray (Centech)"
> > <Ray.Miller@va.gov>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:59 AM
> > Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook HTML and MHT Conversion Issues
> >
> >
> >> When I process with Saxon (and Xerces and the Jakarta XML commons
> >> resolver), it writes the full file:///absolute/path/ url to image
> >> files into my html, xhtml, and fo output. This is not a big deal for
> >> fo output, but messes up html and xhtml if they are served on a web
> >> server. Furthermore, if the files are moved to another directory after
> >> being created, the absolute references break (this happens as part of
> >> my Ant build process, where the build directory is a different
> >> directory from the destination).
> >>
> >> On 10/4/06, Mauritz Jeanson <mj@johanneberg.com> wrote:
> >>> > -----Original Message-----
> >>> > From: chris.chiasson@gmail.com
> >>> >
> >>> > this is happening because Saxon is writing full paths into
> >>> > your html files
> >>> > xsltproc won't do this
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> What paths are you referring to? Image paths? I'm curious since I
> >>> haven't
> >>> noticed any differences between Saxon and xsltproc. Can you please
> >>> elaborate?
> >>>
> >>> /MJ
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
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