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Subject: DocBook on the Web
Reading Norm's latest post <http://norman.walsh.name/2006/10/30/openMind> I wondered, has anyone tried publishing straight DocBook on the Web? i.e. sending real DocBook XML + (CSS | XSLT) to the client; not doing the conversion server side or earlier and sending HTML to the client? If so, what were your experiences. My suspicion is that even assuming client side support there are several problems: 1. There are no straight CSS stylesheets for DocBook. 2. The XSLT stylesheets are too complex to reasonably render client side. They also likely rely on extension functions browser engines don't have. 3. Anything beyond an article is too large for one page, and it's not really possible to chunk pages on the client side. Are these fixable? Is it worth fixing them? Or is it just that prerendering to HTML simply is the better option and we should stop worrying about it? -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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