Re: assembly stylesheet now available

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

Has anyone had a chance to try out the stylesheets?  It is really easy since one of 
the stylesheets will convert a single-file DocBook document into modular files with an 
assembly document.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>
To: "DocBook Technical Committee" <docbook-tc@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 9:58 PM
Subject: assembly stylesheet now available


> Hi,
> I've created a new version of the assembly stylesheet kit and posted it to DocBook 
> SourceForge.  Look  under Files, then Assembly, and select the zip file named 
> assembly-xsl-2011-08-21.zip.  The README in the zip file contains the initial doc, 
> which I will be expanding over time.
>
> The kit includes a stylesheet to disassemble a DocBook 5 document into modular topic 
> files and generate a matching assembly element.  You can use that to easily convert 
> an existing book into modular topic files.  Then you can apply the assemble.xsl 
> stylesheet to put it back together, effectively roundtripping the document.  Or you 
> can edit the assembly to try out various features and generate different output 
> documents.
>
> I have included in the zip file the latest schema files (5.1b4), which include the 
> assembly elements.
>
> I'm initially only informing the TC about this kit, so please give it a try.  Once I 
> get some feedback that it is working reasonably well I'll announce it to 
> docbook-apps for more people to play with.
>
> Bob Stayton
> Sagehill Enterprises
> bobs@sagehill.net
>
>