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Re: [docbook-apps] Apache modules for serving DocBook
- From: Frans Englich <frans dot englich at telia dot com>
- To: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 07:24:47 +0000
- Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Apache modules for serving DocBook
- References: <67F953AF-3109-11D9-94D8-000D933B5D9E@cshl.edu>
On Sunday 07 November 2004 22:07, Tristan Fiedler wrote:
> I have a series of chapters (marked up with DocBook XML) stored in a
> mysql database. I would like them to be rendered as both HTML and pdf
> through a webpage. This is creating an online book.
>
> What is the preferred / efficient method to automate this using apache
> ? Do I need to run an XSLT and XSLFO each time? I would prefer not to
> store the HTML and pdf, but create them on the fly if that is not to
> time consuming. Most chapters are about 2500 words of text, plus
> markup, which can be up to 50% more. Images are also present.
Serving Docbook dynamically was discussed some time ago:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/docbook-apps/2004-q3/msg00609.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/docbook-apps/2004-q4/msg00006.html
If you come up with any solution -- let the list know. The best alternative is
the one described by Bob, but it means restraining the Docbook vocabulary and
doing heavy customizations.
Cheers,
Frans