Hi Mauritz,
Thanks a lot for your reply. Your answers helped a lot but also raised
some more questions :-)
Is version 5 already used for production applications although there is
no official release yet?
I use docbook to render dynamically generated content (e.g. database
reports) in different formats.
Is there a packaged tool similar to docbook-utils for version 5 which
allows to convert XML to PDF/HTML/.. with a single command or do I have
to install and configure everything myself (I only have very limited
access to the servers).
Thanks again,
Roger
Mauritz Jeanson wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Roger Blum
>
>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook SVG Module
>> V1.1CR1//EN"
>> "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/svg/1.1CR1/dbsvg.dtd">
>> <article>
>> <section>
>> <title>Certification Charts</title>
>> <para>Sample doc.</para>
>> <mediaobject id="svgTest">
>> <imageobject>
>> <imagedata format="SVG" fileref="test.svg" width="10cm"
>> height="10cm"/>
>> </imageobject>
>> </mediaobject>
>> <para>Some other text</para>
>> </section>
>> </article>
>
>
> There is no "height" attribute on imagedata; rename it to "depth".
>
>
>> % jw -b html -d my_config.dsl -u test.xml
>> is used to transform the test file.
>> The generated HTML code for the SVG graphic is
>> <div class="mediaobject"><p></p></div>
>>
>> Concerning this I have a couple of questions:
>>
>> Can the docbook utils be used for transforming files that contain svg
>> (without svg it works fine)?
>
>
> The DocBook DSSSL stylesheets (whioh are used by docbook-utils) do not
> recognize SVG as a valid image format, as far as I can tell. I guess that it
> would be fairly easy to fix this, but nowadays the XSLT stylesheets are much
> more popular. The DSSSL stylesheets have not been discontinued, but they are
> not actively maintained.
>
>
>> Is the '<!DOCTYPE ...' correct and necessary or can I use the locally
>> installed docbook DTDs?
>
>
> It seems to be correct (you use the DTD for the DocBook SVG module;
> http://www.docbook.org/specs/wd-docbook-svg-1.1CR1.html). And yes, you can
> use a locally installed version of that DTD (or any DTD, of course). But if
> you don't have any SVG markup in your files, you don't need the SVG module.
>
>
>> Is there something obvious I'm doing wrong?
>
> See above...
>
>
>> How to integrate svg directly into the xml file without having an
>> external svg file?
>
>
> Since you use the DocBook SVG module, SVG markup is allowed in imageobject
> (it is the whole point of using that module).
>
> Note that DocBook 4.5 is the last version in the DocBook 4.X series. All
> current development is aimed at "the next big thing", DocBook 5, and you
> might want to read up on that; see http://www.docbook.org/docs/howto/. Among
> other things, there are instructions on extending the DocBook 5 RELAX NG
> schema with the SVG schema:
> http://www.docbook.org/docs/howto/#faq-customization-svg.
>
> /MJ
