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Subject: DOCBOOK: generating DocBook Makefile autodeps
I use makefiles (with GNU Make, of course) to build my XML DocBook documents. Parts of them (external entities) are automatically generated. This means that, as I make changes to the source, from which these document fragments are derived, or when I update changes made by others (through CVS, a source/revision control system facilitating concurrent development), the affected documents must get rebuilt. Currently, I codify the dependencies manually, though this is quickly growing into a tedious, error-prone chore. To solve this problem, GNU Make has some special features for automatically generating makefile fragments, which can be included in a second pass of the makefile that generated them. This is the mechanism I use to generate (along with a special mode of gcc's cpp, which enumerates the tree of files that are included by a source file and any of the files it includes or the ones they include, etc.) autodeps for C/C++ code. It was always my intention to do something similar w/ XML DocBook. This would require writing a tool to enumerate dependencies resulting from use of external entities and the DTD, as well as any DocBook-specific mechanisms for referencing external files. While I don't mind doing this, I thought I'd check to see if anyone is aware of such an autodep tool, for XML DocBook or generally just XML. If the latter case, it should have hooks to extend to new vocabularies that refer to external files by means other than entity references - being able to specify a list of XPath expressions, which indicate CDATA or PCDATA nodes to be interpreted as system identifiers, might suffice. Anyhow, if I do end up having to write the above tool, I'll probably post it on a related SourceForge project I've got, and send a link to this list. It'll be GPL'd. Matt Gruenke _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
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