Re: [docbook-apps] callout-lists and HTML/PDF creation withxsltproc/libxslt

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

> Yeah. This could have been a solution :) I just have one problem with
> that: The extensions do not exist on Debian systems. Unfortunately I
> cannot provide them with the docbook-xsl package.

I don't understand.  Are you saying the DocBook XSL package on Debian 
excludes the extensions directory of the distribution?  Why?  What else 
does it leave out?

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Leidert" <daniel.leidert.spam@gmx.net>
To: "ml_docbook-apps" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 11:59 PM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] callout-lists and HTML/PDF creation 
withxsltproc/libxslt


> Am Montag, den 26.02.2007, 22:14 -0800 schrieb Bob Stayton:
>
>> I'm afraid that both the line numbering feature and the inserted 
>> callouts
>> feature are both implemented as Java extensions in Xalan and Saxon, and
>> won't work with xsltproc.
>
> Hm. I know changed to use <screen> with <co> instead of <screenco> or
> <programlistingco> which seems to work fine except a bug in the PDF
> output (callout graphics, that should be put besides each other are put
> under each other). I attached a sample output
> of ../docbook/trunk/defguide/en/refpages/elements/screenco/example.1.gen
> (as XML article) that shows this bug - I guess it's really a bug in the
> FO stylesheets, because HTML output works fine.
>
>> I understand your quandary about needing xsltproc's XInclude feature as
>> well.  One solution is to process the XIncludes with xmllint to create a
>> temp file, and process the temp file with Saxon with extensions to get 
>> the
>> callouts or line numbers.
>
> Yeah. This could have been a solution :) I just have one problem with
> that: The extensions do not exist on Debian systems. Unfortunately I
> cannot provide them with the docbook-xsl package. Maybe it could be a
> way to provide the extensions (and only the extensions, not the whole
> saxon.jar) as separate java archive (something like
> saxon-nwalsh-ext.jar). But I don't know, if this is possible or if the
> Saxon version in docbook-xsl's SVN is heavily patched. I should ask our
> pkg-java team. They should probably know.
>
> Thanks for your answer.
>
> Regards, Daniel
>


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