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</style><title>DocBook</title></head><body bgcolor="#8b7765" text="#000000" link="#a06060" vlink="#000000"><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"><tr><td width="120"><a href="http://swpat.ffii.org/"><img src="epatents.png" alt="Action against software patents" /></a></td><td width="180"><a href="http://www.gnome.org/"><img src="gnome2.png" alt="GNOME2 Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.w3.org/Status"><img src="w3c.png" alt="W3C logo" /></a><a href="http://www.redhat.com"><img src="redhat.gif" alt="Red Hat Logo" /></a><div align="left"><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/"><img src="Libxslt-Logo-180x168.gif" alt="Made with Libxslt Logo" /></a></div></td><td><table border="0" width="90%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="center" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="#fffacd"><tr><td align="center"><h1>The XSLT C library for GNOME</h1><h2>DocBook</h2></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" align="center"><tr><td bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="200" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Main Menu</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><form action="search.php" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" method="get"><input name="query" type="text" size="20" value="" /><input name="submit" type="submit" value="Search ..." /></form><ul><li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li><li><a href="intro.html">Introduction</a></li><li><a href="docs.html">Documentation</a></li><li><a href="bugs.html">Reporting bugs and getting help</a></li><li><a href="help.html">How to help</a></li><li><a href="downloads.html">Downloads</a></li><li><a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a></li><li><a href="news.html">News</a></li><li><a href="xsltproc2.html">The xsltproc tool</a></li><li><a href="docbook.html">DocBook</a></li><li><a href="API.html">The programming API</a></li><li><a href="python.html">Python and bindings</a></li><li><a href="internals.html">Library internals</a></li><li><a href="extensions.html">Writing extensions</a></li><li><a href="contribs.html">Contributions</a></li><li><a href="EXSLT/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">libexslt</a></li><li><a href="xslt.html">flat page</a>, <a href="site.xsl">stylesheet</a></li><li><a href="html/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">API Menu</a></li><li><a href="ChangeLog.html">ChangeLog</a></li></ul></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Related links</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><ul><li><a href="tutorial/libxslttutorial.html">Tutorial</a>,
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XML/SGML vocabulary particularly well suited to books and papers about
computer hardware and software.</p><p>xsltproc and libxslt are not specifically dependant on DocBook, but since
a lot of people use xsltproc and libxml2 for DocBook formatting, here are a
few pointers and information which may be helpful:</p><ul><li>The <a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/docbook/">DocBook
homepage at Oasis</a> you should find pointers there on all the lastest
versions of the DTDs and XSLT stylesheets</li>
<li><a href="http://www.docbook.org/">DocBook: The Definitive Guide</a> is
the official reference documentation for DocBook.</li>
<li><a href="https://sourceforge.net/docman/index.php?group_id=21935">DocBook
Open Repository</a> contains a lot of information about DocBook</li>
<li>Bob Stayton provides a <a href="http://www.sagehill.net/">lot of
resources</a> and consulting services around DocBook.</li>
<li>Here is a <a href="/buildDocBookCatalog">shell script</a> to generate
XML Catalogs for DocBook 4.1.2 . If it can write to the /etc/xml/
directory, it will set-up /etc/xml/catalog and /etc/xml/docbook based on
the resources found on the system. Otherwise it will just create
~/xmlcatalog and ~/dbkxmlcatalog and doing:
<p><code>export XMLCATALOG=$HOME/xmlcatalog</code></p>
<p>should allow to process DocBook documentations without requiring
network accesses for the DTd or stylesheets</p>
</li>
<li>I have uploaded <a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/test/dbk412catalog.tar.gz">a
small tarball</a> containing XML Catalogs for DocBook 4.1.2 which seems
to work fine for me too</li>
<li>Informations on installing a <a href="http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/CygwinPackages">Windows
DocBook processing setup</a> based on Cygwin (using the binaries from the
official Windows port should be possible too)</li>
<li>Alexander Kirillov's page on <a href="http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~kirillov/dbxml/">Using DocBook XML
4.1.2</a> (RPM packages)</li>
<li>Tim Waugh's <a href="http://cyberelk.net/tim/xmlto/">xmlto front-end
conversion script</a></li>
<li>Linux Documentation Project <a href="http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/DocBook-Install/">
DocBook-Install-mini-HOWTO</a></li>
<li>ScrollKeeper the open documentation cataloging project has a <a href="http://scrollkeeper.sourceforge.net/docbook.shtml">DocBook
section</a></li>
<li>Dan York presentation on <a href="http://www.lodestar2.com/people/dyork/talks/2001/xugo/docbook/index.html">Publishing
using DocBook XML</a></li>
</ul><p>Do not use the --docbook option of xsltproc to process XML DocBook
documents, this option is only intended to provide some (limited) support of
the SGML version of DocBook.</p><p>Points which are not DocBook specific but still worth mentionning
again:</p><ul><li>if you think DocBook processing time is too slow, make sure you have
XML Catalogs pointing to a local installation of the DTD of DocBook.
Check the <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/catalog.html">XML Catalog page</a>
to understand more on this subject.</li>
<li>before processing a new document, use the command
<p><code>xmllint --valid --noout path_to_document</code></p>
<p>to make sure that your input is valid DocBook. And fixes the errors
before processing further. Note that XSLT processing may work correctly
with some forms of validity errors left, but in general it can give
troubles on output.</p>
</li>
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