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Subject: [docbook-apps] DocBook XML as an Output
Hi, We maintain our doc alongside our code. When building a project our build system also generates the doc output. Three things impact on the time it takes to generate the docs: 1. The number of guides 2. The number of output formats 3. The number of different profiled versions of each guide It means doc generation can take up as much as 15/20mins within an overall build time of around 45mins. I want to reduce the amount of time it takes to build our docs by only generating a "DocBook XML" output format for each guide instead of the PDF and Webhelp outputs. The resulting single DocBook XML file will contain all xincluded chapters etc. It will also contain the product version number taken from the build system. A sub-directory of all images used in the guide will exist alongside the file. This will become the main doc release artifact. Later, outside of the core build process, I'd like to run this file through a standard DocBook toolchain to produce PDF and Webhelp outputs as required and where build times are not a concern. To do this I've tried using the profiling/profile.xsl stylesheet (without any profile values) to generate the DocBook XML output. However, I've the following issues: 1. The DocBook XML output from the profile.xsl stylesheet doesn't contain any XML or DOCTYPE declarations. This means the DocBook XSL processor can't resolve any entities during the second pass. 2. The profile.xsl stylesheet doesn't resolve processing instructions (e.g. <?dbtimestamp format="Y"?>) within the DocBook XML source. Does anyone have any experience with this type of approach? Or is there simpler alternative to what I'm trying to do? Rgds, Dermot -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/DocBook-XML-as-an-Output-tp31904857p31904857.html Sent from the docbook apps mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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