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Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Chunking question
Customizing the chunking to the extent you appear to want is quite difficult, especially if you want to maintain reasonable previous/next/up links in the output. I had a project where I was converting a set of documentation from HTML into DocBook, and one of my requirements that the chunking remained the same as it was in the original. Well, in the original, the authors didn't follow any rules in chunking, so there are places where I needed to chunk five sections deep and others where there were only two, but that second level did have what would be considered sub-sections. What I did (and it breaks a few rules of structured editing), was to set the chunk.section.depth parameter high enough that any section-type element would chunk. I then used <bridgehead/> elements to create sub-sections within a chunk. It's not a perfect solution. In fact, I'm not a big fan of it myself. However, it does give the author very explicit control of where to break the HTML pages. Jeff Beal -----Original Message----- From: Roel Vanhout [mailto:roel@riks.nl] Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 1:42 PM To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Chunking question Hello all, I'd like to represent something like this: - Integrated model |- Model A |- Submodel A | |- Submodel Property A | |- Submodel Property B |- Submodel B | |- Submodel Property C |- Model Property A |- Model Property B I managed to do this with <sect1>, <sect2> & <sect3> tags, and then I set the "chunk.section.depth" and "chunk.first.sections" parameters to "2" and "1" respectively. The submodels and the model in the example are actually similar in what properties they have; how they relate to one another depends on how the integrated model is constructed. Now, I'd like to chunk the data so that all the properties of submodel A appear on one page, all the properties of submodel B appear on another page and all the properties of model A on a third page. But with chunk.section.depth set to 2, Model Property A and Model Propery B are chunked to seperate pages. How can I solve this? Can I configure it with parameters? Do I need to change the stylesheets? If so, would it be hard? Where should I start? I hope I explained my problem clearly enough; thanks in advance for all hints. cheers, roel
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