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Subject: Re: [docbook] Integrating DocBook with mySQL content...
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 13:04 -0500, newman@world2you.com wrote: > I am currently using FrameMaker to produce huge volumes of technical > documentation. I publish primarily to PDF at this point, and these files > get distributed through the web and several other methods. > > Many of my publications are nearly identical except for specific product > specifications which reside in a mySQL database. So, it's an ideal > environment to match a template with specifications being pulled from the > database and integrated into the text. > > I haven't touched DocBook yet, but I'm wondering if there is a DocBook or > other XML-oriented solution available. I'm thinking along the lines of > creating one DocBook template and having variables within the template > that attaches to a datasource (mySQL in my case), and pull specs into the > DocBook file. This would be my "Holy Grail" of solutions, especially if I > could then output to HTML and PDF. > > Any thoughts on possible solutions? If DocBook isn't a part of the answer, > that's OK with me too. Are any of you aware of any other XML tools > available that do this type of thing aside from developing a custom PHP > application? This is a possibility, not a solution. Could XSLT, as part of your workflow, pick up the database boilerplate text, and use it with the docbook xslt, to provide your PDF output via xsl-fo? Either directly, or via some java interface to the database (says he, just having done a mysql to java piece today :-) regards DaveP
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