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Re: Newbie troubles with Docbook/XML + XHTML
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 05:11:37PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
> On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:32:54AM -0400, Jeff Beal wrote:
>
> > However, you can write a customization template to handle this (note that I
> > didn't get the XHTML DOCTYPE - I'm too lazy to look it up, and I don't have
> > it memorized)
>
> Works a treat, thanks /very/ much. Now the only problem I have
> left is the xmlns thing, and I suppose a low-tech sed solution
> will do for that.
>
> Although I do have another question (sorry !). Now I have my
> customisation xsl, I have a line like :
>
> <xsl:import href="/usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets/xhtml/docbook.xsl"/>
>
> which means that anyone wanting to build the docs may need to hand-edit
> this to match their system. Is there a meta-solution to this problem ?
> Even if someone has an autoconf macro for discovering the stylesheets
> installation.
>
> I'd rather not refer to a web address since it requires a net connection
> to build.
You can redirect the URL in the stylesheet file to
a different system location using an XML catalog.
See:
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/catalogs.html
Each user can have their own catalog file.
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