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Problem generating slides (was Re: The slides doctype -XSL-FO output)
- To: "Rafael R. Sevilla" <sevillar at team dot ph dot inter dot net>
- Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Problem generating slides (was Re: The slides doctype -XSL-FO output)
- From: Dan York <dyork at e-smith dot com>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 10:06:48 -0400
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Organization: e-smith, Inc.
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106061508030.11322-100000@dido.engr.internet.org.ph>
Rafael,
> Hello, has any more work been done recently on the slides doctype? I'm
> still using version 1.1, current as of November last year. The regular
> HTML slides seem to work just fine for my purposes, but I have never been
I just started working with slides doctype yesterday as I have some slides
due for a talk (LinuxWorld SF on using CVS) and I just got fed up with
StarOffice (yes, I know about MagicPoint). So I tried to give it a whirl...
but I was NOT able to generate HTML slides.
I installed Norm's 1.39 XSL stylesheets, and then downloaded the slides 1.1
doctype and tried to process the 'test.xml' file found in the directory.
First I found that I needed to modify line 10 of "xsl/slides.xsl" to have
the path to 'chunk.xsl':
<xsl:import href="/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.39/html/chunk.xsl"/>
Once I did that, I tried again processing Norm's 'test.xml' using Xalan 1.2.2:
[dyork@burrito slides]$ java org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -IN test.xml
-XSL xsl/slides.xsl
========= Parsing file:/local/home/dyork/db/slides/xsl/slides.xsl ==========
Parse of file:/local/home/dyork/db/slides/xsl/slides.xsl took 8673 milliseconds
========= Parsing file:/local/home/dyork/db/slides/test.xml ==========
Parse of file:/local/home/dyork/db/slides/test.xml took 878 milliseconds
=============================
Transforming...
Writing frames.html for slides
Writing toc.html for slides
Writing titlefoil.html for slidesinfo
XSL Error: pattern = '$prestitle'
VariableReference given for variable out of context or without definition!
Name = prestitle, source tree node: foil
XPATH: pattern = '$prestitle'
VariableReference given for variable out of context or without definition!
Name = prestitle
Xalan: was not successful.
XSLProcessor: done
[dyork@burrito slides]$
I did not make any modifications to 'test.xml' or any other file... I just
wanted to verify that it would build the test file before I started
creating slides. Have you been able to get it to work for you?
On a related note, do you (or anyone else) have examples of files using
the slides doctype that you would be willing to share? I always find it
useful to look through other people's XML markup to understand better
how to use a DTD. The only ones I could find for the Slides doctype is
the test.xml file that comes with it (which doesn't generate for me)
Thanks in advance,
Dan
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