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Re: htmlhelp.xsl in docbook 1.50.0
Michael Smith wrote:
>
> Jirka, you wrote:
>
> > Paul Grosso wrote:
> >
> > > I'm getting those problems every time I try to compile htmlhelp.xsl with
> > > either one of several versions of Xalan. Has anyone used htmlhelp.xsl
> > > successfully with Xalan?
> >
> > htmlhelp.xsl doesn't work with Xalan as Xalan doesn't support text
> > output method on chunks. (At least it didn't supported it last time I
> > checked it.) You can try Saxon and xsltproc, they work without problems
> > with htmlhelp.xsl and are much more faster than Xalan.
>
> Is there any possible workaround for this issue -- an
> Xalan-specific conditional that could be written into the
> stylesheet to get it to work with Xalan -- or maybe a two-stage
> process that could be used with Xalan?
There is workaround, but I dislike it as it isn't nice. I will test
whether this workaround didn't break Saxon and xsltproc support.
> The reason I ask (and the reason I think it might be important to
> support Xalan in spite of this current deficiency in its
> functionality) is that I know there are some packaged products,
> with a installed user base, that use Xalan built-in for doing XSLT
> transforms. So moving over the product to using Saxon or xsltproc
> would mean updating the whole installed user base.
>
> Also, I think a lot of the people using these packaged products
> are likely to be Windows users, the very ones that would really
> benefit from and value having built-in, off-the-shelf support in
> the packaged application for generating HTML Help using the
> process you've developed.
You are right. I will try to solve this issue.
Jirka
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