From: Bob Stayton (bobs@sagehill.net)
Date: Fri Apr 30 2004 - 13:00:46 PDT
See this reference for getting the DocBook XSL stylesheets set up and
working:
http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/ToolsSetup.html
It has a section on "Installing the DocBook stylesheets".
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Korgen" <skorgen@intersystems.com>
To: <xep-support@renderx.com>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [xep-support] Re: can't list multiple page references for index
terms
> Hi Alexander,
>
> I downloaded a bunch of stylesheets from Norman Walsh's web site, but
there are
> so many of them. Would you tell me exactly which of the standard
stylesheet
> files
> from Normal Walsh you used, when you successfully built my index?
>
> Thanks, Susan
>
>
> At 10:07 AM 4/30/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> >Many thanks.
> >
> >How do I obtain the standard Docbook stylesheets created by Norman Walsh?
> >
> >
> >At 03:20 PM 4/30/2004 +0400, you wrote:
> >>Hello Susan,
> >>
> >>Your previous message to this list bounced because of attached file.
> >>The policy of this list is to reject messages more then 40000
> >>characters long (this includes Base64-encoded attachments).
> >>
> >>The stylesheets you refer to were proprietary stylesheets used by
> >>RenderX to format XEP documentation written in a subset of Docbook.
> >>The aim of 'index.xsl' module was to support Docbook indexes, however it
> >>was rather experimental and we have never actually used it much. We
> >>shipped it only with several XEP versions up to XEP 3.4.
> >>Note that those stylesheets were not intended to be used as example
> >>and we do not provide any guarantee that they there bugs-free nor we
> >>support them in any form.
> >>
> >>Starting from XEP 3.5 we completely give up use of the proprietary
> >>stylesheets and decided to use standard Docbook stylesheets created by
> >>Norman Walsh. This allowed us to use the full set of Docbook elements
> >>and to avoid problems with maintaining our own set of stylesheets.
> >> >From that time on, XEP distribution contains only customization
> >>stylesheets which are supposed to work with standard Docbook XSL
> >>stylesheets.
> >>
> >>I have added an empty index element (<index/>)to the end of your
> >>document (before </book>) in order to trigger Index generation and
> >>processed this document with standard Docbook stylesheets - the index
> >>was successfully generated. I'd rather suggest to switch to the
> >>standard Docbook stylesheets. You can use your own customization layer
> >>(as we did now) in order to achieve desired appearance. Customization
> >>techniques are thoroughly described in Bob Stayton's excellent book
> >>"DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide" (http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/)
> >>
> >>
> >>Best regards,
> >>Alexander Peshkov mailto:peshkov@renderx.com
> >>RenderX
> >>
> >>
> >>SK> I've had a response to my email (not from RenderX) that says there
> >>SK> is both too much and not enough information for anyone to work
> >>SK> on the problem.
> >>
> >>SK> I would be delighted to correspond with anyone who can tell me a
> >>SK> better way to describe my problem, so that a solution can be found.
> >>
> >>SK> Indexing is difficult, so I assume any solutions would be of general
> >>interest.
> >>
> >>SK> My assumption has been that there is a simple syntax error in
> >>SK> my index_xep.xsl file that a knowledgeable person would spot
quickly.
> >>
> >>SK> My hope is that since my file is based on one I downloaded from
RenderX,
> >>SK> there is someone at RenderX who understands it better than I do.
> >>
> >>SK> We have been RenderX customers for nearly a year now and this is our
> >>SK> first serious problem in using the product. I hope I can get some
help.
> >>
> >>SK> If anyone would like to call me rather than send email,
> >>SK> my number is 617-577-3642.
> >>
> >>SK> Susan
> >>
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