Re: [docbook-apps] EPUB3: how to use base.dir ?

[Thomas Schraitle <tom_schr@web.de>]

Hi Bob,

Am Mittwoch, 10. April 2013, 10:53:17 schrieb Bob Stayton:
>
> > Or, maybe invent some new variable and name it epub.base.dir which
> > serves as "the" base directory for everything. 
>
> Thanks for the feedback.  I think maintaining a confusing base.dir setup is
> worse than any backwards compatibility issues for the next release, so I'll
> fix this.  Since the base.dir param is already used in many places in the
> html stylesheets, changing its behavior would be difficult.  I like the idea
> of a new epub.base.dir param, and the stylesheet would set the default
> base.dir value to
> 
> concat($epub.base.dir, '/', $epub.oebps.dir)

Great!! Thanks a million!


> Regarding those params, only these are hardwired constants and should be
> 
> xsl:variables:
> >>  epub.metainf.dir='META-INF/'
> >>  epub.mimetype.filename='mimetype'
> >>  epub.mimetype.value='application/epub+zip'

Right, sounds reasonable.

 
> These can be changed by the user:
> >>  epub.oebps.dir='OEBPS'
> >>  epub.ncx.filename='toc.ncx'
> >>  epub.container.filename='container.xml'
> >>  epub.package.filename='package.opf'
> 
> I'm not sure why you would change them, but they can be changed and still
> have a valid epub file.

Ok, I'm fine with that. :)


Thanks for all your efforts.


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Gruß/Regards
  Thomas Schraitle