RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: CSS stylesheet for DocBook

[Peter Ring <pri at magnus dot dk>]

There's a nice one included with the XXE distribution:

  http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor


kind regards

Peter Ring



-----Original Message-----
From: ed nixon [mailto:ed dot nixon at lynnparkplace dot org]
Sent: 3. marts 2003 16:44
To: Shlomi Fish
Cc: Jonathan Lo; docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: CSS stylesheet for DocBook


Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Jonathan Lo wrote:
> <snip/>
> 
> CSS stylesheet are used on the web to customize the look and feel of HTML
> files. DocBook is not compatible with HTML and many of the tags and
> semantics are different.
> 
> It may be possible to convert a DocBook/XML file into HTML on the fly
> using an XSLT stylesheet. Generally speaking, DocBook is intended for
> off-line processing.

This information is misleading. CSS can be used to display XML files 
assuming the Cascading Style Sheet uses selectors that conform to the 
XML file syntax and also that the display facility is capable of 
rendering the combination. Examples of such tools are, Mozilla, Netscape 
7, IE6, XMetaL and numerous other XML editing products.

I believe there is a prototypical CSS to be found in the contrib section 
of the SourceForge distribution point. It was quite rudimentary the last 
time I looked. I you would like an alternative, contact me off line and 
I will send you a copy of one I use with XMetaL for editing purposes. 
Caveat: there may be selector syntax that is not supported by all 
browsers, in particular Internet Explorer.

Regards.                ...edN