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[docbook-apps] Lot of doubts about formatting with xsltproc


Dear all,
I am trying to put up a DocBook system (task not so easy on Cygwin...),

and the first document I am working on is a set of quotations.

I managed to convert a sample file, with command
 xsltproc file:///lib/docbook-xsl/xhtml/docbook.xsl citazioni.xml > citazioni.html
You may see both files at http://xmau.com/scra/ .
I have a lot of doubts, however. Most of them must be simple, and
if someone could point me to a good tutorial I would be really
grateful.

(a) I would like to have my output coded in ISO-8859-1 rather than
in UTF-8; it's not mandatory, since a remote page is loaded fine,
but I am annoyed since I cannot see the file correctly on my local
machine. Is it possible to do so?

(b) Another nuisance is that the output is a loooong line. Is there
a way to have it split?

(c) I don't want to see the standard text like "Sommario" and
"Capitolo 1". Is there a way to modify the behaviour of the
transformation filter?

(d) Am I correct in inferring that the "right" way to have some
leading and trailing space between quotes, and return lines between
quotes in a blockquote block, is to apply a style sheet? If so, is
there a way to add its location in the original XML file? (BTW, I
would have preferred to use <para> instead of <quote>, but I
think that it is not possible, right?)

(e) I also want to start from the XML source and generate a plain
text file in a format apt to be used by fortune. What should I do?

(f) (and last!) Why the public identifier for DocBook does not
seem to work? what should I do in order to cope with this?

TIA, .mau.


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