Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Customize (extend) DTD and XSL stylesheet

["Terje J. Hanssen" <nteknikk at monet dot no>]

Thank you Bob for your reply and the link to your interesting recources, 
which I already have downloaded and printed out. Now I have a lot more 
to study to get a better understanding of this matter. Later on I expect 
to come back with more concrete follow-up questions.

Terje


Bob Stayton wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:41:05AM +0100, Terje J. Hanssen wrote:
>
> > I am searching to find out how to possibly customize (extend) the 
> > DocBook DTD and XSL stylesheet to apply it on my XML documents/ebook. I 
> > need to structure the text content with my own defined additional XML 
> > elements and attributes, to prepare it for smart content search.
> >
> > I have looked in chpt 4 and 5 of 'DocBook: The Definitive Guide', the 
> > article on xml.com and the DocBook XSL stylesheet docs. But I feel I 
> > need some simple examples and/or advices to clarify, especially 
> > regarding extending the DTD with a few additonal XML elements and 
> > attributes.
> >
> > Do you know how or possible where I can find additional info/docs on 
> > this area?
>
> My site (www.sagehill.net) has two additional resources
> that might help you.
>
> - LiveDTD is a tool for converting a DTD to a hypertext
> document.  It lets you jump around the DocBook DTD to
> see where something is declared.  I wrote it specifically
> to maintain my sanity while creating a customized DocBook
> DTD.  In the Demonstration section, there is an example
> of a customized version of DocBook 3 that you can examine.
> You can download the livedtd.pl Perl script and apply
> it to your own DTD as you develop it.
>
> - A slide presentation "Customizing the DocBook DTD" that
> I presented at an O'Reilly conference.  It covers much
> the same territory as The Definitive Guide. But the key
> pages are "Order is important", which indicate in which
> modular docbook file to make specific kinds of changes.