[OPEN-ILS-DOCUMENTATION] DocBook 5.0 super-quick HOWTO

[Karen Schneider]

Betty, when you say you are trying to add tags, can you clarify--what kind
of tags?

Karen G. Schneider, Equinox Software Inc.

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Betty Ing
<ingbe at univmail.cis.mcmaster.ca>wrote:

> I installed XMLmind Personal Edition recently and am able to edit XML
> content with it. I am trying to add tags as well, but without success.
> How do we access this functionality? In the interim, I am using
> Notepad++ to create tags.
>
> Betty Ing
> Project Conifer
>
>
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:40:42 -0500
>  "George Duimovich" <gparser at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Dan.
> >
> > I checked it out and only had minor problems with some xsl tranforms.
> > I have
> > a somewhat dated version of XMLSpy on my Windows desktop and it
> > worked well
> > enough to transform the samples with ease (open file > assign
> > XSL...).  I
> > haven't looked recently to see what open source XML editors are
> > available
> > for the Windows environment, but I know folks around here have used
> > XMLSpy &
> > Oxygen Editor (the later has some reasonable academic/non-profit
> > pricing).
> >
> > The only minor problem I had was my editor defaulted to IE for
> > parsing in
> > "browser" / view mode, so a few of stylesheets I tried choked with IE
> > (probably fixable with some tweaks to the browser options, etc.).
> >
> > George Duimovich
> > NRCan Library / Bibliothèque RNCan
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Dan Scott <denials at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I've been playing a little bit with DocBook 5 XML and using
> > XInclude
> > > to compose a document from multiple files, and committed changes to
> > > the sample documents at
> > > http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/browser/trunk/docs/ to demonstrate
> > > that experiment.
> > >
> > > To try it out yourself:
> > >
> > > 1. Download the "docbook-xsl-ns" stylesheets from
> > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21935#files
> > > 2. Download the sample files from
> > > http://svn.open-ils.org/trac/ILS/browser/trunk/docs/
> > > 3. Use the xsltproc utility (part of the xsltproc package on Debian
> > > and Ubuntu) to process the document using your preferred
> > stylesheet;
> > > in my case, the stylesheets have been unzipped into
> > > /home/dan/docbook-xsl-ns-1.74.0 directory. You have to pass the
> > > --xinclude parameter to force xsltproc to include XInclude'd files;
> > on
> > > my system, the command to process the whole sample manual is as
> > > follows:
> > >
> > > xsltproc --xinclude
> > /home/dan/docbook-xsl-ns-1.74.0/xhtml/onechunk.xsl
> > > index.xml
> > >
> > > (This automatically generates a single HTML file named
> > "index.html").
> > >
> > > If you are using Windows, installing an XSLT processor is
> > > unfortunately not a simple process. The Cygwin utilities
> > > (http://www.cygwin.com) offer a freely downloadable compiled
> > version
> > > of xsltproc, but the install and use process is a bit painful.
> > There
> > > are also various Java-based tools that are available, but that seem
> > to
> > > require annoying amounts of environment variables to be set to get
> > > things working properly.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dan Scott
> > > Laurentian University
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