Re: DOCBOOK: HTML output with Jade - Problem

[Stéphane Bline <sbline at apsydev dot com>]

Norm,

Thank you for your answer. What I would ideally need is the following:
chunks at chapters & books, NOT at the various section levels like sect1 or
sect2. And that seems to be the case for the DocBook compiled HTML version.
If you look at the chuncks and at the sgml source file, that seems to be the
case. Or do you have a different source for the HTML version ?
I also noticed that the chunking algorithm behaves strangely. If a chapter
has, say 3 sect1 sections and you output this using the HTML stylesheets the
result is puzzling. The first HMTL file contains the beginning of the
chapter plus the first sect1 section and the other 2 sect1 sections are each
rendered in a separate HTML file. Is this working as designed ?

Best Regards,

Stéphane Bline.

----- Original Message -----
From: Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
To: <docbook@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: HTML output with Jade - Problem

> / Stéphane Bline <sbline@apsydev.com> was heard to say:
> | I'm having some difficulties with the HTML output. Here goes: I'm trying
to
> | output an HTML file from a standard and valid XML file. I'd like Jade to
> | output only 1 HTML file but instead it seems to output one HTML file for
> | each structural section in my XML file (like chapter, sect1, ...).
> | Not very convenient (especially not for compiled HTML help). Is there a
way
> | to force Jade into creating only one HTML file for each element that has
the
> | ?dbhtml? PI and only for those.
>
> If you only want one file, you can use -V nochunks (or define
> nochunks #t in your custom stylesheet). But if you want output
> only chunked at the particular components that have dbhtml PIs
> but not at every chunk, I'm afraid you're out of luck.  That
> would horribly complicate the (already complex) chunking
> algorithm.
>
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
>
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