Thanks, this is helpful. I also went to the OASIS list archives and tried to
get a feel for 5.0 activity. I'm not overly concerned about the officialness
of 5.0, since it's certainly a de facto standard (and I've watched other
standards projects and know this process is hard). I'm a little concerned
that overall the movement toward de jure status of 5.0 is very slow, with a
minimum of people involved in the heavy lifting (not that this isn't usually
the case in most projects) -- more in the sense of what it might or might
not say about Docbook's health as a living standard, de facto or otherwise.
But it certainly seems true that most of the tools appear to support it, and
it has a widely popular base.
Karen G. Schneider, Equinox Software
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Camille Bégnis <
camille@neodoc.biz> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> indeed the picture is a bit blurry at the moment while docbook is migrating
> from 4.x to 5.0. Some points to try to answer your questions:
>
> - 4.x docbook will not evolve anymore, the current standard is now 5.0
> - 5.0 is not officially an OASIS standard yet, because of administrative
> reasons only
> - many people have been using exclusively 5.0 for more than a year without
> issues.
> - there are not really 5.0 stylesheets at the moment. Some work is being
> done on XSLT2 stylesheets, but this is not production ready I believe. So
> 4.x stylesheets have been adapted to be capable of handling 5.0 documents
> - 5.0 documents are not exactly processed back to 4.x: it is just that
> there is a first step that makes some adjustments to the document so it is
> correctly processed by the stylesheet. However this is transparent to the
> user. The user just apply the stylesheet once.
> - there is the namespace aware stylesheet version (-ns) that is specific to
> 5.0 but basically based on the standard stylesheet.tax
>
> So in short: just apply current -ns stylesheet with xsltproc on your
> document.
>
> Concerning xincludes, the syntax is the same as in DB 4.x, just remember to
> use the namespace.
>
> All this is my vision of the issue, I will let experts precise or correct
> all if necessary
>
> Camille.
>
>
> Karen Schneider wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm reposting a message from Betty, an intern who is subscribed to
>> this list but having difficulty posting.. Note that I think I have partially
>> found the answer from the following document,
>>
http://www.docbook.org/docs/howto/ , which includes links to
>>
http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl-ns/current/ , but I am still
>> seeking general clarification about why 4.0 seems to be the norm (I mean, to
>> a newcomer it seems odd that I'd produce 5.0 documents and then process them
>> back to 4.0?!)... because of a large installed base, or something else?
>>
>> Karen G. Schneider
>>
>> -------------------------
>>
>> From: "Betty Ing" <
ingbe@mcmaster.ca <mailto:
ingbe@mcmaster.ca>>
>> To:
docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org <mailto:
>>
docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
>> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:58:14 -0500
>> Subject: DocBook 5 Stylesheets
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have been looking at the "Using XInclude" example in Ch. 23 - Modular
>> DocBook - of DocBook XSL.
>>
>>
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ModularDoc.html#UsingXinclude>>
>> I would like to create the chapter file and book file using DocBook 5
>> and DocBook 5 stylesheets. I also plan to use xsltproc. What changes do
>> I need to make in the xml files, and where can I locate DocBook 5
>> stylesheets?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Betty
>>
>>
>>
>>
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