DocBook on the Web

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?

-- 
Elliotte Rusty Harold  elharometalab.unc.edu
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afeaulait.org/books/javaio2/
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596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/

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