DOCBOOK: Some docbook problems...

[Alexander Schatten <alasan@gmx.net>]

First of all (to Norman Walsh): thank you for the enormous work you put
into building the dtds, xsls, ...

nevertheless there are a few questions open:

(1) I managed to use the xsl stylesheet to produce html and chunked html
(though the docs are really bad in my opinion and it was playing around
two nights to detect how it works)

but I did not manage to produce PDFs using apache FOP processor. it
works quit good using xep (also with problems e.g. tfooter in table...);
will there be an update that works with apache FOP, and nearly more
important: in Cocoon to dynamically publish docbook to pdf?


(2) the "index" story is described, at least in my opinion, very
confusing in the docbook (also the bibliography, ...) book from
O'Reilly. I added primary index entries ... but no index appears in the
PDF output ( nor in the html output).

there is some cryptical line in the book that could be understood, that
one has to write its own processor to generate the index, but this can
obviously be no solution to the problem. e.g. because I do not know an
which pages which index entries will appear (this is done by the XEP or
FO processor).

so I guess the index mechanism has to be part of the xsl stylesheets and
I didnt find how to print the index?


thank you for comments...



Alex