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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: page chunking
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 02:20:45PM +1000, Phillip Shelton wrote: > From my reading of the origial question <beginpage> is > exactly what he wanted as he started with a hardcopy and > has made a softcopy in Docbook. Ack, you are correct. I read it backwards, that he had converted his XML book to print. But there is still no direct solution for arbitrary chunking on <beginpage/> elements. I think it would be hard to do even as a customization, given the complexity of the chunking templates. bobs > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@caldera.com] > Sent: Saturday, 31 August 2002 2:55 AM > To: agon glo; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: page chunking > > > On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 06:27:41AM -0400, agon glo wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've converted a print book into XML using the DocBook DTD. I've inserted a > > beginpage to indicate each new page in the print book. Now I want to chunk > > the XML into pages based on the <beginpage> tag, so that each page in the > > print book corresponds to an HTML file in the XSLT output. > > > > How should I do that with the DocBook XSLT stylesheets. > > You can't, unless you are willing to do some pretty heavy > customizing of the chunking stylesheet. > > My first question is: how did you get <beginpage/> to start > a new page in your print output? That is not its purpose > (although you are not alone in thinking that it is). > See "DocBook: The Definitive Guide" for a description > of the beginpage tag (http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/docbook.html). > The DocBook XSL stylesheets don't respond to <beginpage/> > unless some customization was done. > > There is no facility in the chunking stylesheets for > arbitrary chunks. A DocBook file is chunked at chapter > and section breaks. You have some control over which > sections cause a break using stylesheet parameters. See > http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/html/index.html > for a description of the HTML stylesheet parameters. > > Hope this helps. > > Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street > Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 > Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 > Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887 > email: bobs@caldera.com -- Bob Stayton 400 Encinal Street Publications Architect Santa Cruz, CA 95060 Technical Publications voice: (831) 427-7796 Caldera International, Inc. fax: (831) 429-1887 email: bobs@caldera.com
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