Re: [docbook-apps] revisit: putting together a docbook 5.0 toolchainORIGINALLY for linux

[Ruediger Landmann <r.landmann@redhat.com>]

On 01/15/2010 11:04 PM, Bram Vogelaar wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is ant integration for Publican i would like 
> to use continuous integration software (e.g Cruisecontrol) to build 
> new output files upon file changes.

Sorry, Bram, there's nothing specific. However, in no time at all, I was 
able to hack together an Ant build script to tell Publican to build a 
document -- just use <arg>s in your build.xml to pass a Publican 
action[1]  as well as any options for that action.

For example, the normal command to tell Publican to build a document in 
US English, in html format would be:

publican build --lang=en-US --format=html

This worked fine for me in Ant:

<apply executable="publican">
<arg value="build"/>
<arg value="--lang=en-US"/>
<arg value="--format=html-single"/>
</apply>

I did this on Fedora, but the command syntax is identical on other Linux 
platforms and on Windows, so it should work the same elsewhere.

Please feel free to drop by the Publican mailing list[2] to talk about 
anything else that would help Ant users integrate the tool into their 
environment.

Cheers

Ruediger


[1] 
http://rlandmann.fedorapeople.org/pug/sect-Users_Guide-Publican_commands-Actions.html 

[2] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/publican-list