[docbook-apps] RE: [docbook] DocBook XML example projects posted. One formatted with FrameMaker 7.0. One formatted with DocBook XSL.

["David Cramer (Tech Pubs)" <dcramer at motive dot com>]

Steve,
I've long wondered if it would even be possible to get frame's EDD stuff to work with a DTD as rich as docbook. Thank you for sharing your findings in such detail. I noticed the following comment in your xsl:

  <!-- I am told that FOP 0.20.5 is known to be buggy and lacking required 
       functionality. Experts suggest trying RederX XEP, and at least one 
       expert has stated: "If you use FOP, you simply will not get the output 
       expected when applying legal XSL." I hope that is false, because I 
       use FOP and I do not want to buy XEP.    -->

If you haven't already, you should definitly take a look at Eliot Kimber's comparison of fo renderers:

http://www.isogen.com/papers/production-quality-xsl-fo.pdf 

David

Btw., you've got a couple of params declared twice:

$ saxonize -o f2Arch.fo f2Arch.xml f2Arch.xsl
Error at xsl:param on line 532 of file:/c:/Documents and Settings/dcramer/My Doc
uments/XSL_DocBook_XML_example/XSL_DocBook_XML_example/f2Arch.xsl:
  Duplicate global variable declaration
Error at xsl:param on line 535 of file:/c:/Documents and Settings/dcramer/My Doc
uments/XSL_DocBook_XML_example/XSL_DocBook_XML_example/f2Arch.xsl:
  Duplicate global variable declaration
Error at xsl:param on line 553 of file:/c:/Documents and Settings/dcramer/My Doc
uments/XSL_DocBook_XML_example/XSL_DocBook_XML_example/f2Arch.xsl:
  Duplicate global variable declaration
Error at xsl:param on line 556 of file:/c:/Documents and Settings/dcramer/My Doc
uments/XSL_DocBook_XML_example/XSL_DocBook_XML_example/f2Arch.xsl:
  Duplicate global variable declaration
Transformation failed: Failed to compile stylesheet. 4 errors detected.

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