Re: [xsl] DocBook XSL - Can't get it to do anything, does it do anything?

[Markus Spath <mspath at arcor dot de>]

hi gary


> I first tried .NET and had many errors.  Now I have also tried Xalan and 
> XT but still no luck so now and I am assuming I must be either using the 
> wrong style sheets or having completely the wrong idea about what 
> Docbook does?
> 
> What I have been doing is mashing a test article.xml through the 
> processor with the docbook.xsl in the html folder (the one that has 
> includes for includes for all the others) and expecting some kind of 
> bare bones HTML article result but I get nothing except of course errors 
> too complicated to trace or a blank article HTML file.
> 
> Hope someone with experience with this might be so kind as to give some 
> suggestions.
> 

i also just started playing around with docbook, but i didn't encounter any 
problems.

assumed you are in your DOCBOOK_HOME/html directory, have a conformant 
testarticle(.xml) and use xalan:

java -classpath 
%CLASSPATH%;C:\java\xalan-j_2_0_0\bin\xalan.jar;C:\java\xalan-j_2_0_0\bin\xerces.jar 
org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -in testarticle.xml -xsl docbook.xsl -out 
testarticle.html

produced the desired testarticle(.html) output.

maybe you want to try to change to document type declaration from PUBLIC to 
SYSTEM and point to a local URL - this helped me to speed up the transformation 
significantly.

hope that helps a little,
markus


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