Re: Converting DocBook/XML to other formats

[Bob Bernstein <rs@bernstein.providence.ri.us>]

,----[ your message <[🔎] 87smgmwaeq.fsf@wrynose.whinlatter.uklinux.net> said: ]
| Are there any known issues with docbook-utils and XML input?

Don't know; never used 'em.
 
| What would you recommend as the best tool to get PDF and HTML output?
| Ideally, I'd like Texinfo/info output as well, but docbook2texi didn't
| work for me last time I tried.
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Bob Stayton's book, visible online, has helped me:

http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/index.html

I use xsltproc and pdftex. My Makefile looks something like this:

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| PROC=xsltproc
| STYLESHEET=my_html_chunkstyle.xsl
| FOSTYLESHEET=my_fo_style.xsl
| 
| INPUT=endoflife.xml
| OUTPUT=endoflife.html
| FOOUTPUT=endoflife.fo
| 
| 
| html: $(INPUT)
|         $(PROC) $(STYLESHEET) $(INPUT)
| 
| fo: $(INPUT)
|         $(PROC) -o $(FOOUTPUT) $(FOSTYLESHEET) $(INPUT)
| 
| pdf: fo
|         pdftex --interaction nonstopmode "&pdfxmltex" $(FOOUTPUT)
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hth

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Bob Bernstein

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