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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Extend supported output formats
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Gihan, I didn't add that entry to the ideas page, but of them, the most interesting to me is creating content for Android. In particular, I enjoy reading books in the .apk format [1] on my Nexus S over .epub. I suspect .apk and .epub are similar formats and .epub xsls already exist so they could be modified to produce .apk. I don't know if .apk as an output format is enough to keep you busy for a whole summer. If not, you could throw in some other work. I know O'Reilly books are often available in epub and apk formats. Regards, David [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APK_%28file_format%29 On 03/19/2012 04:11 PM, Richard Hamilton wrote: > Gihan, > > Thanks for your interest in the DocBook project and the Google > Summer of Code. > > It seems like you have made a good start. I suggest looking at > DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide, by Bob Stayton, for the best > single reference to the stylesheets. You can find an online version > at http://sagehill.net. > > Currently, ant is not required to build or use the stylesheets. > > Regarding your question about the idea page, I will leave that for > other's on this list to address. I suspect the person who wrote > that particular idea is on the list. > > Best Regards, Dick Hamilton ------- XML Press XML for Technical > Communicators http://xmlpress.net hamilton@xmlpress.net > > > > On Mar 19, 2012, at 2:01 PM, gihan karunarathne wrote: > >> Hi devs : >> >> I've gone through the idea page of DocBook and found the project >> idea "Extend supported output formats [1]" very interesting to me >> mainly because I have good background knowledge about Ant and >> Android. I'm doing an Android application as my level-3 software >> project and also I'm a fan of smart phones, specially about >> Android. >> >> After I started poking around DocBook, I understood that XSLT >> language processor[2] get an XML source document, and an XSLT >> stylesheet( typically the DocBook xsl sheets [3] ) and produces >> an output document according to the rules are provided in XSLT >> style sheet. If I misunderstood the procedure, please correct me >> ?. >> >> I installed "XSLTProc"[4] and download the DocBook xsl style >> sheets from sourceforge repository [5]. Then using DocBook ubuntu >> documentation [6], I create a test.html file by using test.xml >> file. It was successfully built. I used a command similar to >> this "xsltproc -o test.html >> /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/xhtml/docbook.xsl >> test.xml" According to my understanding, I used a external xslt >> processor to transform test.xml file to test.html according to >> the DocBook html style sheet. >> >> As I understood, the main goal of the project is generating an >> another type of formats file (ex:Android,iPad) by a >> XSLTProcessor. So, in order to do that we want xsl style sheet >> which includes instructions and other directives that guide the >> processor in the production of the output document, right? If so, >> I think it's better if I looked at how the current DocBook xsl >> style sheets can be use to implement those output formats. >> Further, I'd very much appreciate if you can provide me some >> directives and guide me. Specially, I'm looking for >> documentation/articles explaining how Ant and xsl is currently >> used in the system. Please tell me if I missed something >> important !. >> >> I also need to clarify the idea which is in the idea page[1]; >> “Output format packages” output by the DocBook style sheets would >> be easily consumable / installable by hosting applications. What >> does it mean by "easily consumable / installable" ?. Can you >> explain further ?. As I familiar with these output formats like >> HTML, PDF and plain_text are information based resources. But >> Android supported for the .apk format that the format of >> applications running on Android OS. So, what are the output >> formats which are going to produce by "Android-xsl" sheets and >> for others in the list ? >> >> Further, I welcome any advices that you'd like to give for a >> beginner DocBook developer interested in contributing. >> >> Thank you in Advance !. >> >> [1]. >> http://docbook.xmlpress.net/tiki-index.php?page=Ideas2012#Extend_supported_output_formats >> >> [2]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Transformations >> [3]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook_XSL [4]. >> http://xmlsoft.org/xslt/xsltproc2.html [5]. >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/files/docbook-xsl/ [6]. >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DocBook >> >> >> -- Regards Gihan Chanuka Karunarathne Department of Computer >> Science and Engineering University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka >> >> Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/gihanchanuka LinkedIn: >> http://lk.linkedin.com/pub/gihan-karunarathne/25/ba3/993 >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: > docbook-apps-help@lists.oasis-open.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPZ+RZAAoJEMHeSXG7afUhGGcH/1bI8w9s5LMLpUlOWXp+rCGc pA73KONnj/khBvreg9UWYvICuolAyYUCl+6QJTehcxoOTTgDsMzBjZ0LzpMc73Zo 1z70ydCbDlZ94v0kaa3pJBP0RFG86ZlOAW3rH/rCwGo6wXaNQmST8EEXJoebLSaH oS39Ddm7APzQ062vXR3z28avQNs33N4NHV2COzeTqFSw+jA1XQBQ2uNzYD4RUVhk NOp9R1TrC1fmKyvq+4J5nrBZ3o8AeA3xigfuTT1aEpZ33gVft4/vUmp5BiM7Iz7D Nzkht9fJSn8haKk9AUt2L30fMq8ACTGWhFlLJmnyJi/3zbYMXz8P767YXqGvnso= =j4zE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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