RE: [docbook] DocBook on the Web

[Jens Stavnstrup <js@ddre.dk>]

I am not to fond of products, which extends a standard "to much", and it
really should not be necessary (althogh I admit, not all browser may
support all CSS elements yet).

Remember the fun battle last year between Norm and Håkon Wium caused by
an offhand remark [1] by Norm, which resulted in the following very nice
articles [2] and [3].

Regards,

Jens

[1] http://norman.walsh.name/2004/12/07/webarchPdf
[2] http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/01/19/print.html
[3] http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/02/09/cssorxsl.html



On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Peter Ring wrote:

> CSS-styled XML documents, including some DocBook documents, can also be rendered for printing, either through conversion to XSL-FO or directly to PDF. Useful for eg. rendering to PDF on-the-fly. See:
>
>   http://www.re.be/css2xslfo/
>   http://www.princexml.com/overview/
>
> Both applications extend CSS a bit in order to support running headers, footnotes etc.
>
> Complex DocBook documents would not be suitable for 'raw' rendering this way. But then again, many DocBook documents are actually close to an architectural form of XHTML.
>
> Kind regards
> Peter Ring
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Elliotte Harold [mailto:elharo@metalab.unc.edu]
> > Sent: 1. november 2006 11:51
> > To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Subject: [docbook] 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.
> >
> <snip/>
>