Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Customizing DocBook to Produce a real URL Tree

[Dennis Grace <dgrace at us dot ibm dot com>]

Shlomi Fish asks:
>>>>>
I'm not happily using the db2* tools to convert DocBook/XML into various
formats. However, I noticed that jade put all the HTML file into one
directory and calls them with obscure names such as:

book1.html
c16.html
x208.html

etc. Now what I want is that it will be real URL Tree:

     (Root)
[id1]
[id1]/[id2]
[id1]/[id2]/[id3]
[id4]

<snip>

My question: how can I customize the DSSSL (or XSL while we're at it)
stylesheets to produce such a tree? (and still maintain prev-next-up
link consistency and link to the same CSS stylesheet)

<<<<<

For the DSSSLs, in your customization layer you need to set:

   (define %use-id-as-filename%
    #t)

For XSL, two params do the task you're trying to assign. If you set

<xsl:param name="use.id.as.filename" select="1">

the id attribute will be used for all chunks except the root, which will be
named index.html. If you would rather set the root filename to the id, set

<xsl:param name="root.filename" select="@id">


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