> maybe i am wrong, but i think there is an application
available that
> does exactly the same as Camille wrote. the application
provides a
> graphical user interface for modifying existing
customization layers
> based on the docbook stylesheets.
It's called DocBook XSL Configurator and it can be
downloaded from:
http://sou
rceforge.net/projects/db-xsl-cfg
DocBook XSL Configurator provides a Java Swing GUI for doing
essentially three
things:
1) write a DocBook XSL customization layer to disk
2) run various external subprocesses, such as an XML-to-FO
transformation
or an FO-to-PostScript transformation
3) save everything to a project
> as far as i tested the application, it does not include
all of the
> parameters specified.
Did you find a bug? Let me know please.
DocBook XSL Configurator cannot include in any customization
layer the params
that it does not know about. It needs to be updated to
reflect appropriate
changes in the DocBook XSL package every time the the
DocBook XSL package
changes. I think the best way to do that would be some
automated process
using XSL and the DocBook XSL source repository. As it is
now, the
application loads its data from a file that contains the FO
params and the
help text from the DocBook XSL package's documentation.
That data file has to
be updated by hand.
The application Jirka described:
> [a] graphical application that will let you load and
save
> existing stylesheets customization and set majority of
parameters using
> dialogs similar to common word processing applications.
is a more ambitious project.
DocBook XSL Configurator has a defined, limited scope. I
expect that within a
few months I will update it to use the latest FO XSL params
. . . and
perhaps the HTML params . . even if I must still create the
data file by
hand . . . or maybe I'll wait and use the task as an excuse
to learn _much_
more XSL.
With DocBook XSL Configurator, users are expected to
understand the help text
the GUI displays for each FO parameter, which may be too
much to expect. (I
don't understand all of them completely !!!!) The help text
is copied from
the HTML help pages that accompany the DocBook XSL
stylesheets.
The project is open to additional developers. DocBook XSL
Configurator exists
now and to the best of my knowledge does not have any bugs.
Please let me
know if you find any bugs. If anyone wishes to help, the big
chore I can't
really do myself is writing the XSL that would create the
data file. That
would make DocBook XSL Configurator updates easier.
Also, if you have any nifty XSL snippets you want to share
with others, send
them to me and I'll include them in the application's
"From the Wild"
section. Those snippets can then be included in the
customization layers
written out by DocBook XSL Configurator.
see ya,
Steve Whitlatch
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