DocBook on the Web

I would guess XMLMind has a pretty good DocBook stylesheet
:=]

One problem with sending DocBook source without telling the
client to
process it is that the source can contain things like
<xi:include> and
processing instructions which CSS wouldn't be able to style.

On 11/1/06, Elliotte Harold <elharometalab.unc.edu> wrote:
> 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.
>
> My suspicion is that even assuming client side support
there are several
> problems:
>
> 1. There are no straight CSS stylesheets for DocBook.
>
> 2. The XSLT stylesheets are too complex to reasonably
render client
> side. They also likely rely on extension functions
browser engines don't
> have.
>
> 3. Anything beyond an article is too large for one
page, and it's not
> really possible to chunk pages on the client side.
>
> Are these fixable? Is it worth fixing them? Or is it
just that
> prerendering to HTML simply is the better option and we
should stop
> worrying about it?
>
> --
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On 11/1/06, Chris Chiasson <chrischiasson.name> wrote:
> I would guess XMLMind has a pretty good DocBook
stylesheet :=]

Yeah, but XMLMind also extends CSS to make it good enough
for use in
the XMLEditor.

Revisiting the older CSS work with the aim of targeting a
very recent
CSS version may have better success, but will, of course,
not allow
users using IE.


Keith

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