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Re: ant and website ?
- From: Dave Pawson <dpawson at nildram dot co dot uk>
- To: Shawn <javajunkie at koyuru dot com>, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 10:10:21 +0000
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: ant and website ?
At 18:08 01/12/2002 +0900, Shawn wrote:
I am happily using ant to build my html (thanks to dpawson
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/docbook/ant.html ) but don't understand it's
relationship to website.
When trying to build a website (to see what it's like and how it's different
from chunking my html output), I learned that the website pages need an ID
such as <webpage id="test1" lang="de">. I'm kind of new to this all, so
it seems to me like website pages are not docbook pages anymore.
My questions are :
1) Is website significantly better than the html produced through reg
docbook?
www.dpawson.co.uk is all website.
website is a specialisation layer on top of docbook, so I don't think
you lose anything by using website.
2) Is it possible to build a website site from docbook xml pages by
processing them with xsl (to add the webpage id for instance)?
Yes.
I need to produce pdf files too, so I have to stay with and author in
docbook.
That looks interesting. Perhaps have the basic content in entities,
then include into a website framework or something else for pdf?
I don't use pdf for the website stuff, hence not considered that.
I'm just doing a users manual though so maybe I don't need what a
website would have to offer.
Possibly not; no.
I just saw the create layout and create
website tasks in the ant build file and wondered if I should be using them,
why they were there, and if they didn't already build a website from regular
docbook xml.
Sounds about right.
regards DaveP