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Subject: Re: [docbook] Using DocBook As Website Content!
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 11:53:12PM +0100, Sina K. Heshmati wrote: > Dear Sir, > > How is it possible for me to use DocBook as the main content of my > website? (not necessarily DocBook Website). But Website is an option you should look at, because you can integrate DocBook content that has been converted to HTML to Website. > For instance, I write XHTML and CSS in order for my own options to be > imposed, and DocBook XML to be embedded in to my XHTML files. I think you mean you want to embed XHTML generated from DocBook XML, right? Embedding XML would require the browser to format it, and many browsers don't to that yet. > Something like, PHP Manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/. The manual > itself is written in XML using the DocBook XML DTD, but the output is > appeared across their website. The PHP example is server-generated HTML. As you might expect, the PHP website uses a lot of PHP to deliver their content. Every page you see there is the result of server-side PHP assembling the content. Note that all the hrefs in their HTML have ".php" suffixes, as does the top level page index.php. So every link you follow generates a PHP process on the server to create the result you see in your browser. To get the ".php" suffixes in the HTML, they probably set the 'html.ext' parameter in the DocBook XSL stylesheet to ".php". Then they wrote the PHP code to assemble each page on the server, I presume. Another approach might be to use the user.header.content and user.footer.content templates in the DocBook stylesheets to add stuff at the top and bottom of each page. But you won't be able to do an HTML page layout table that way. You would need to output the opening tag of the table with the user.header.content template, and the closing table tag with the user.footer.content. But XSL won't let you do it that way. A template cannot generate just half of an output element. If you have server-side includes turned on your http server, you could output ssi instructions with the header and footer templates: <xsl:template name="user.header.content"> <xsl:comment>#include virtual="/header.html"</xsl:comment> </xsl:template> <xsl:template name="user.footer.content"> <xsl:comment>#include virtual="/footer.html"</xsl:comment> </xsl:template> mod_include won't care if header.html is just the top of a layout table. If, on the other hand, you can't do it with the server and you must add the wrapper content to the DocBook HTML files themselves, then you could post-process the files with a script. I'm sure others have other approaches to this. -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 The SCO Group fax: (831) 429-1887 email: bobs@sco.com
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