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

[Ian Castle <ian dot castle at coldcomfortfarm dot net>]

With DSSSL (and I imagine XSL) it would be perfectly possible to generate the 
node names... the problem would be creating the directories - as there are no 
facilities in DSSSL to do file manipulation on the underlying file system.

However, DSSSL is extensible so you could create an external procedure to do 
this for you.

There would be quite a fair bit of work involved for a novice - and a few days 
for an expert.

On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 4:20 pm, Janning Vygen wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 26. November 2002 16:38 schrieb Dennis Grace:
> > 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">
>
> Thats not what he asked for, everything is still in one directory.
>
> kind regards
> janning
>
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