RE: DOCBOOK: clunk.pl

["Beckers, Marc" <Marc dot Beckers at softwareag dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Walsh [mailto:ndw@nwalsh.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 2:54 PM
> To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: clunk.pl
> 
> 
> / "Beckers, Marc" <Marc.Beckers@softwareag.com> was heard to say:
> | I am learning XSL and find Norm Walsh's
> | docbook.xsl works well for Docbook instances.
> | However, not being a programmer, I find chunk.pl
> | difficult to read. Can anyone tell me which
> | bits to adapt/change to make it work?
> 
> Sigh. If it's any consolation, I'm working on a customization
> layer of the stylesheets that uses James Clark's xt:document
> element to do the chunking, thereby avoiding the need for the
> perl script.

I'm very glad to hear it. In fact, I've been sniffing around
xt:document myself, having a whale of a time trying to preserve
the ID/IDREF mechanism across multiple output files with XSL/XPATH means. 
I found something today that works (also thanks to the helpful guys
on the XSL list and our inhouse XSL consultant), though I am sure
it needs polishing here and there.

I wish everyone on this list a peaceful Christmas
and a healthy, happy new year.

Marc