Re: [docbook-apps] including xhtml questions

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

Well, I wouldn't call that a silly question.  8^)   In theory, xhtml in the W3C XHTML 
namespace could be included in DocBook5 since it is in a separate namespace. 
Validating such a document becomes more difficult, of course. But the Oxygen XML 
editor for one can use NVDL to validate a document with multiple schemas.  See this 
forum topic for details:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/forum/topic4991.html

Then you would just need to add an XSL template to your stylesheet to copy any 
elements in the XHTML namespace to the output.  But if you are handing off your 
DocBook files to others, the recipients would need your NVDL set up to edit the 
documents.

I think your second idea could also work. Currently the XSL  template that handles the 
dbhtml-include processing instruction just copies the content through. But if the 
input is well-formed XHTML, then you could create stylesheet templates to process it 
before outputing the result.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Arnold" <jtim.arnold@gmail.com>
To: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
Cc: "DocBook Apps" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] including xhtml questions


Hi Bob,
yes, that's what I was asking, but seeing it written out so plainly
(and not fuzzily in my brain), it's looks like a silly question.  I do
*wish* I could hand over a single file when I need to share, but I
guess it will have to be a zip and not a DB XML.

thanks,
--Tim

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> Can you clarify this question:
>
>
> > Is there any method I can use to create a valid DocBook XML file that
> > doesn't require me to ship the external xhtml files?
>
>
> Does this mean you want to insert into your document the edited xhtml code?
> And then have that xhtml code output as working xhtml?
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Arnold" <jtim.arnold@gmail.com>
> To: "DocBook Apps" <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 7:18 AM
> Subject: [docbook-apps] including xhtml questions
>
>
> > Hi,
> > I create DocBook 5 XML and use the html stylesheets to produce html.
> > I also use the dbhtml file= processing instruction to insert some
> > xhtml files that have been externally generated. Unfortunately I have
> > no control over the external process and the xhtml contains &nbsp;
> > entities and duplicate IDs.
> > I have been postprocessing the files to remove these before running
> > the DocBook html stylesheets (using a Python script).
> >
> > I'd rather not do that because
> > (a) it adds another external step to the build process and
> > (b) I have to include these modified xhtml files if I need to deliver
> > the DocBook content to others.
> >
> > My questions:
> > Is there any method I can use to create a valid DocBook XML file that
> > doesn't require me to ship the external xhtml files?
> > If not, then would it be better (maintenance, simplicity) to create a
> > custom processing instruction to include these files instead of using
> > Python?
> >
> > thanks,
> > --Tim Arnold
> >
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