dsl file for sgml faq

[Tony Lambregts]

Vincent Béron wrote:

> Tony Lambregts a écrit:
>
>> Vincent Béron wrote:
>>
>>> Tony Lambregts a écrit:
>>>
>>>> I have been fighting with trying to get your sample built on my 
>>>> system. The end point for me seems to be that in order to use your 
>>>> faq.dsl I need docbook DTD 4.2. RedHat 7.2 has  Docbook 3.0 through 
>>>> 4.1 but  4.1 just does not cut it.
>>>>
>>>> jade:../faq.dsl:50:24:E: reference to undefined variable 
>>>> "$generate-article-lot-list$"
>>>>
>>>> The sgml tools  site  has only 3.0/2
>>>>
>>>> So I feel very THICK  and ned some enlightenment  on what direction 
>>>> to take either.
>>>>
>>>> 1) It seems pointless to rely on something (docBook 4.2 DTD) that 
>>>> is difficult to get, so no one will use it so, no one will maintain 
>>>> the FAQ.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Silly me, not thinking about others. It runs fine with docbook 3.1 
>>> (modify the doctype at top of wine-faq.sgml) if you remove the 
>>> articleinfo pair (but you can keep the title).
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2) I am THICK and I it will be quickly apparent what I should do 
>>>> once I have more informatioin.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You're NOT thick! It's just that I do things here (on my machine), 
>>> and I don't always check if it would work on other machines.
>>>
>>> Vincent
>>>
>> When I made the suggested changes I still get the same error...
>>
>> [tony at tony documentation]$ db2html -d ../faq.dsl wine-faq.sgml
>> output is wine-faq
>> Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-3.1.cat
>> Using stylesheet: ../faq.dsl
>> Working on: /usr/local/src/wine/documentation/wine-faq.sgml
>> jade:../faq.dsl:50:24:E: reference to undefined variable 
>> "$generate-article-lot-list$"
>
>
> Ok, it's the definition of the article element which causes problems.
>
> What is your dsssl-stylesheets version? You can locate db31.dsl and 
> look in the parents directory name. 


dsssl-stylesheets-1.64

>
>
> I needed to copy some definitions (bad thing to do, as your 
> experiencing shows) to precisely control the HTML layout.
>
> Try with the enclosed dsl file (warning: endlines are probably MS), 
> and compare the differences (if it works ;-)). Then tell me which 
> differences you absolutely need, or want, and I'll try to get them in 
> a portable way.
>
> Vincent 

I had to modify the  faq-plain.dsl a little to get output

>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
><!DOCTYPE style-sheet PUBLIC "-//James Clark//DTD DSSSL Style Sheet//EN" [
><!ENTITY walsh-style PUBLIC "-//Norman Walsh//DOCUMENT DocBook HTML Stylesheet//
><!ENTITY cygnus-style SYSTEM "/usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/docbook/cygnus/cygn
>]>
>  
>
<!DOCTYPE style-sheet PUBLIC "-//James Clark//DTD DSSSL Style Sheet//EN" [
<!ENTITY walsh-style PUBLIC "-//Norman Walsh//DOCUMENT DocBook HTML 
Stylesheet//EN" CDATA DSSSL>
<!ENTITY cygnus-style SYSTEM 
"/usr/lib/sgml/stylesheet/dsssl/docbook/cygnus/cygnus-both.dsl" CDATA DSSSL>
]>


><style-sheet>
><style-specification id="html" use="docbook">
><style-specification-body>
>
>(define %html-pubid% "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN")
>(define %html-header-tags% '(("META" ("HTTP-EQUIV" "Content-Type") ("CONTENT" "t
>
(define %html-header-tags% '(("META" ("HTTP-EQUIV" "Content-Type") 
("CONTENT" "text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"))))

>(define %use-id-as-filename% #t)
>(define %html-ext% ".html")
>
>(define %stylesheet% "faq.css")
>(define %stylesheet-type% "text/css")
>
></style-specification-body>
></style-specification>
>
><external-specification id="docbook" document="walsh-style">
>
></style-sheet>
>  
>
With those changes I get output (but not the prety stuff ) <grin>

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Tony Lambregts