DocBook Xsl: The Complete Guide (4th Edition) - Softcover

Stayton, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0974152137 ISBN 13: 9780974152134

Publisher: Sagehill Enterprises, 2007

Synopsis

DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide (Fourth Edition) by Bob Stayton is the definitive guide to using the DocBook XSL stylesheets. It provides the missing documentation to realize the full potential of DocBook publishing. It covers all aspects of DocBook publishing tools, including installing, using, and customizing the stylesheets and processing tools. With this book, you can: (a) select the DocBook components that are appropriate for your needs and budget, (b) set up and configure the tools for efficient processing of your documents, (c) generate HTML and print output from the same DocBook files, (d) customize your HTML and print output (e) discover and use advanced features of the DocBook stylesheets. The book is suitable for new users just getting started, as well as more advanced users needing a complete reference. It is thoroughly indexed and cross referenced so you can quickly find what you need. The Fourth Edition updates the content to the latest stylesheets and DocBook version 5.

About this title

From the Publisher

What is DocBook? DocBook is a collection of standards and tools for technical publishing. DocBook was originally created by a consortium of software companies as a standard for computer documentation. But the basic "book" features of DocBook can be used for other kinds of content, so it has been adapted to many purposes.

A DocBook file contains no information about how to format it. That information is kept in a separate stylesheet file. The most powerful and flexible stylesheets for DocBook are the DocBook XSL stylesheets written by Norman Walsh. These free stylesheets can produce HTML and print output from the same DocBook files. DocBook XSL: the Complete Guide provides complete information for using the DocBook XSL stylesheets.

From the Inside Flap

"The DocBook XSL Stylesheets are probably the most commonly used tools for transforming DocBook documents for print or online presentation. And this book is the best way to gain a thorough understanding of the stylesheets.

Bob is a long-standing contributor to the stylesheets themselves and a generous and diligent participant in the DocBook user community. This has given him keen insight into the areas where authors and stylesheet writers are most likely to stumble. This book pays

special attention to those areas, offering detailed explanations of modularity, profiling, cross-document linking, verbatim listings, and table handling, for example. Bob even includes discussion of the Website document type, a fairly radical customization of DocBook designed for producing web sites instead of documents.

As someone who cares a lot about DocBook, I think it would difficult to overestimate the value of DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide. I'm confident it will make the stylesheets accessible to a whole new community of users."

-- Norman Walsh, Chair of the DocBook Technical Committee and creator of the DocBook XSL stylesheets.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sagehill Enterprises
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0974152137
• ISBN 13: 9780974152134
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 588