Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: XHTML and chunking parameters

[Bob Stayton <bobs at sco dot com>]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:22:54AM +1100, Geoff Leach wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm investigating DocBook slides with MathML and SVG for Computational
> Science and Engineering courseware (slides, notes). I've read previous
> discussions about Latex versus DocBook. I'm a longtime Latex user,
> looking into the new land ... 
> 
> XHTML is needed for MathML and SVG. I'm using Mozilla as my test
> browser.  I'm still coming up several learning curves, XSL in
> particular.
> 
> The slides stylesheets use write.chunk extensively, which uses
> chunker parameters declared in chunker.xsl:
> 
> chunker.output.cdata-section-elements
> chunker.output.doctype-public
> chunker.output.doctype-system
> chunker.output.encoding
> chunker.output.indent
> chunker.output.media-type
> chunker.output.method
> chunker.output.omit-xml-declaration
> chunker.output.standalone
> 
> The html2xhtml.xsl transformation modifies chunker.outout.method to
> 'xml' but does not change the other chunker parameters. 
> 
> The docbook/xsl/xhtmlhtml2xhtml.xsl transformation sets xsl:output as
> (reformatted for easy reading):
> 
> <xsl:output method="xml" 
> encoding="UTF-8" 
> doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" 
> doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"/>
> 
> and it these doctypes which get used- at least in my testing with
> Saxon 6.5.2. My understanding is that they are inherited by
> saxon:output which (I think) actually does the output (serialization?).
> 
> Is there a reason for not modifying the other chunker parameters,
> and relying on xsl:output?
> 
> It wouldnt be hard to set values for the chunker parameters in a
> customization layer. But is it more appropriate they get modified by
> html2xhtml (in both the DocBook and the slides stylesheets)?
> 
> There's another reason I'm interested in the chunker parameters to
> do with validation but I'll pop that into another post ...

I agree. I went ahead and filed an RFE on SourceForge
for this (#693732).


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