DOCBOOK-APPS: problems running db2latex-0.6 with docbook-xsl-1.45using saxon-6.4.4

[Steffen Maier <Steffen dot Maier at studserv dot uni-stuttgart dot de>]

Hello all,

to get known to the newest possible XSL-stylesheet solutions for
DocBook-XML I experimented with db2latex-0.6 (checked out of sf.net CVS at
24/11/2001) in conjunction with docbook-xsl-1.45 using saxon-6.4.4. I had
to do quite a lot of customization to resolve incompatibilities between
the different versions of the stylesheets and wondered if this is really
the actual status especially concerning db2latex.

Attached (so linebreaks won't cripple it) to this email is the
XSLT-customization-hack I had to use to even get my document (an english
article containing some german quotes => l10n used) processed by the
XSLT-engine. Maybe some experts could comment on the used templates?
Shouldn't that all be built into an actual version of db2latex (assuming
it should go there and not into Norm's modular stylesheets where some of
the now missing templates vanished in newer versions)?

BTW, the command line I used was (I can provide a link to the
document source if someone is interested):
java -classpath \
d:/java/saxon644/saxon.jar;d:/usr/share/sgml/dbxsl145/extensions/saxon644.jar\
com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet ../src/phigs.xml ../src/phigs_latex_145_06.xsl \
>phigs.tex

Db2latex' scape-template is IMHO a bit unhandy to maintain especially if
all character escaping to LaTeX is done in there. I'd wish something like
Norm's gentext as a more general solution but don't know if this is
possible.

Bye,
Steffen.

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