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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Large documents
/ Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> was heard to say: | Gary Lawrence Murphy writes: | > | > Is there an equivalent backend process for DocBook XML to produce a | > work in sections the way we can generate large LaTeX books by | > collecting cross references and index material in the aux files? | > I'd like to be able to re-compile one chapter independently of all | > others, but have its external references resolve. | | I have wondered about this, and it strikes me as a fairly complex | task. It would have to mean doing all the cross-referencing by means | of an intermediate data file, instead of direct generation. Then | during each run you'd have to update portions of the external data | file. It could obviously be done, but its not going to be a barrel of | laughs. If you can stomach organizing your linking around olinks, there's support, uh, for HTML at least, for this in the DSSSL stylesheets. Be seeing you, norm -- Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | In a universe of electrons and http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | selfish genes, blind physical Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | forces and genetic replication, | some people are going to get hurt, | other people are going to get | lucky, and you won't find any | rhyme or reason in it, nor any | justice.--Richard Dawkins
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