Re: DOCBOOK: The right tool for my task

[Henrik Motakef <henrik dot motakef at web dot de>]

Florian Brunner <fbrunnerlist at gmx dot ch> writes:

> The tutorial consists of different trails each consisting of different pages
> and a TOC linked together. The layout of the header and footer of these
> pages should be the same for all of them, just the links do change. So I would
> like to specify the header and footer at a single place with parameters to
> configure them. And I would like that the TOC is generated automatically. Of
> course I could do that with a CGI-program but I would like to have a bunch of
> static HTML-files in the end, so one could view the tutorial offline without
> needing a CGI-capable webserver at hand.
> Is it possible to do this in DocBook and then generate these HTML-pages? Or
> is there a better tool for this task? Note that images, links and links
> behind images should be supported. (Is it possible to generate a HTML-file that
> embeds an applet?)

This is definitly possible. There are XSL stylesheets to generate a
bunch of HTML files from Docbook, including a ToC, an index etc., and
they are faily customizable.

Of course, it would help if you know XSLT well if you want to
implement significant customizations. :-)

Regards
Henrik