Few DocBook queries and DSSSL

Hi, I'm not sure if these questions are appropriate in this
forum. I'm pretty
new to DocBook. I understood the concept well. I had a few
questions.

I'm trying to make a HTML -> DocBook converter.
Basically, it will take an
HTML file and try to generate DocBook content. I know it may
sounds dumb but
thats what I'm trying to make. So how do I bring structure (
DocBook ) to an
unstructured document ( HTML )?

While I was learning about the formatting of the DocBook
content I came
across DSSSL. I got many resources online but all of them
have a very steep
learning curve. Are there any simple books / online tuts
that I may have
missed?

One problem that I'm not able to solve is, I'm trying to
change the way
title of my book is formatted. So I made a .dsl file and put
the following
content:

( element ( bookinfo title )
	( make paragraph
		font-family-name: "Times New Roman"
		space-before: 10pt
		space-after: 10pt
		font-size: 36pt
		( process-children )
	)
)

But it simply doesn't show up. Infact the change reflects in
all titles
except the cover page. The DocBook code is as follows:

<book id="my-new-book" lang="en">
   <bookinfo>
      <title>This is the title of the
book!</title>
      <date>12th August 2007</date>
      <releaseinfo>Released by
test!</releaseinfo>
      <authorgroup>
         <author>
            <othername>t</othername>
            <surname>stest</surname>
            <firstname>ftest</firstname>
         </author>
      </authorgroup>
   </bookinfo>
   <chapter id="chapter1">
      <title>This is a title of chapter
1</title>
      <sect1 id="sample-sect-1-1">
          <title>This is some text inside a
section</title>
          <para>This is a para inside a
section</para>
      </sect1>
   </chapter>
   <chapter id="chapter2">
      <title>This is a title of chapter
2</title>
      <sect1 id="sample-sect-1-2">
         <title>This is some text inside a
section</title>
         <para>This is a para inside a
section</para>
      </sect1>
    </chapter>
</book>
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linuxguy wrote:
> Hi, I'm not sure if these questions are appropriate in
this forum. I'm pretty
> new to DocBook. I understood the concept well. I had a
few questions.
> 
> I'm trying to make a HTML -> DocBook converter.
Basically, it will take an
> HTML file and try to generate DocBook content. I know
it may sounds dumb but
> thats what I'm trying to make. So how do I bring
structure ( DocBook ) to an
> unstructured document ( HTML )?

Try grouping, but use xslt, preferably xslt 2.0?


> 
> While I was learning about the formatting of the
DocBook content I came
> across DSSSL. I got many resources online but all of
them have a very steep
> learning curve. Are there any simple books / online
tuts that I may have
> missed?

Only one book,
http://www.amazon.com/DSSSL-Book-SGML-Pr
ogramming-Language/dp/1402075928
Rather pricy.

Lots more on xslt, a couple on Xslt 2.0



HTH



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Dave Pawson
XSLT, XSL-FO and Docbook FAQ
http://www.dpawson.co.uk



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On Friday 28 September 2007 18:27, Dave Pawson wrote:
> linuxguy wrote:
> > Hi, I'm not sure if these questions are
appropriate in this forum. I'm
> > pretty new to DocBook. I understood the concept
well. I had a few
> > questions.
> >
> > I'm trying to make a HTML -> DocBook converter.
Basically, it will take
> > an HTML file and try to generate DocBook content.
I know it may sounds
> > dumb but thats what I'm trying to make. So how do
I bring structure (
> > DocBook ) to an unstructured document ( HTML )?
>
> Try grouping, but use xslt, preferably xslt 2.0?

try a google search for Html2DocBook.xsl
I think it uses bridgeheads rather than sections and
maybe you need to run the html through htmltidy first?


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Dave Pawson wrote:
> 
> linuxguy wrote:
> 
> Try grouping, but use xslt, preferably xslt 2.0?
> 

Okay... have found a few resources on XSLT. Will see about
purchasing that
book too  Thanks for
your help!

Regards.
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doug-49 wrote:
> 
> try a google search for Html2DocBook.xsl
> I think it uses bridgeheads rather than sections and
> maybe you need to run the html through htmltidy first?
> 

found a few resources:

htt
p://www.eecs.umich.edu/~ppadala/projects/tidy/

http://freshm
eat.net/projects/dbdoclet/

i've not yet completely checked out the second link. but it
looks
interesting nevertheless.

Thanks.
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I've used dbdoclet for processing javadoc comments to
docbook. It works
well and the maintainer is responsive if you find bugs, so
I'd definitly
give it a try. Btw., here's a list of "up
converters" for docbook:

http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookToo
ls#head-2398989b220493217aea4765
d199b2c04eed4892
 
I don't know if anybody has made available a xslt 2.0 xhtml
to docbook
stylesheet, but it's exactly the kind of task xslt 2.0 would
be well
suited to (i.e. compared to xslt 1.0).

David

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> 
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> 
> doug-49 wrote:
> > 
> > try a google search for Html2DocBook.xsl I think
it uses 
> bridgeheads 
> > rather than sections and maybe you need to run the
html through 
> > htmltidy first?
> > 
> 
> found a few resources:
> 
> htt
p://www.eecs.umich.edu/~ppadala/projects/tidy/
> 
> http://freshm
eat.net/projects/dbdoclet/
> 
> i've not yet completely checked out the second link.
but it 
> looks interesting nevertheless.
> 
> Thanks.
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