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Re: making a book of articles with Fop


I knew it would be a stupid mistake... When I put all of the documents
together there were multiple sections with the same id.  I think that
was causing the problem.

Thanks for all the input,
Jamie Smedsmo

Jamie Smedsmo wrote:
> 
> What I have is a set of independent articles that I want to make
> available independently on the web and then make a printable version
> for people who want to download the whole set of documents as a book.
> I have a script that strips out the xml declaration:
> <?xml version='1.0'?> and the doctype declaration:
> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
>           "http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/mdp/docbkx412/docbookx.dtd";>
> for the creation of the book.
> 
> I'm just using Fop 0.19.0 to transform directly from xml to pdf.
> It works fine on each article independently.
> 
> I'll keep messing around with it and let you know if I come up
> with something that works.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jamie Smedsmo
> 
> Jeff Rancier wrote:
> >
> > The the issues with tables resolved, that is, going from XML to FO using
> > Saxon's parser, then to PDF using the FOP?
> > Jeff
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jorge Luiz Godoy Filho [mailto:godoy@conectiva.com]
> > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 4:09 PM
> > To: Dan York
> > Cc: Jamie Smedsmo; docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> > Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: making a book of articles with Fop
> >
> > On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, dyork@e-smith.com wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 05:03:03PM -0500, Jamie Smedsmo wrote:
> > >> I am trying to make a book that consists of a bunch of articles.  I
> > >> want to use apache's Fop to make a pdf file.  I can't find any
> > >> examples and mine doesn't work.  Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Yes. Do NOT create them as separate <article> documents.  When you
> > > are breaking out your chapters like this into separate files, each
> > > file should have valid DocBook code, but NOT an overall element like
> > > <article>.  (and no DOCTYPE headers and such).  So they should be:
> >
> > Dan,
> >
> > How should one markup author of each article and give it an abstract
> > and all the other information that are present in articleinfo element?
> >
> > I have "sets" of articles here that are compiled into a book. The
> > construction:
> >
> > <book>
> >  ...
> >  <article>
> >   ...
> >  </article>
> >  <article>
> >   ...
> >  </article>
> > </book>
> >
> > is valid.
> >
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