Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: page chunking

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 02:20:45PM +1000, Phillip Shelton wrote:
> From my reading of the origial question <beginpage> is
> exactly what he wanted as he started with a hardcopy and
> has made a softcopy in Docbook.

Ack, you are correct.  I read it backwards, that he had converted his
XML book to print.  

But there is still no direct solution for arbitrary
chunking on <beginpage/> elements.  I think it would
be hard to do even as a customization, given the complexity
of the chunking templates.

bobs
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@caldera.com]
> Sent: Saturday, 31 August 2002 2:55 AM
> To: agon glo; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: page chunking
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 06:27:41AM -0400, agon glo wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I've converted a print book into XML using the DocBook DTD. I've inserted a 
> > beginpage to indicate each new page in the print book. Now I want to chunk 
> > the XML into pages based on the <beginpage> tag, so that each page in the 
> > print book corresponds to an HTML file in the XSLT output.
> > 
> > How should I do that with the DocBook XSLT stylesheets.
> 
> You can't, unless you are willing to do some pretty heavy
> customizing of the chunking stylesheet.
> 
> My first question is: how did you get <beginpage/> to start
> a new page in your print output?  That is not its purpose
> (although you are not alone in thinking that it is). 
> See "DocBook: The Definitive Guide" for a description
> of the beginpage tag (http://docbook.org/tdg/en/html/docbook.html).
> The DocBook XSL stylesheets don't respond to <beginpage/>
> unless some customization was done.
> 
> There is no facility in the chunking stylesheets for
> arbitrary chunks.  A DocBook file is chunked at chapter
> and section breaks.  You have some control over which
> sections cause a break using stylesheet parameters.  See
> http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/doc/html/index.html
> for a description of the HTML stylesheet parameters.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
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Bob Stayton                                 400 Encinal Street
Publications Architect                      Santa Cruz, CA  95060
Technical Publications                      voice: (831) 427-7796
Caldera International, Inc.                 fax:   (831) 429-1887
                                            email: bobs@caldera.com