Re: Docbook 5.x

Jürgen Purtz wrote:

> after some manual interventions (which must become part of an algorithm)
> it's possible to created the complete PDF file for the db4 production chain:
> *.sgml -- (perl) --> *.xml and after that step: postgres.xml -- (evaluate
> XInclude with xmllint) --> postgres_all.xml -- (xsltproc using standard db4
> stylesheet) --> postgres_all.fo -- (fop) --> postgres_all.pdf. The fo/pdf
> generation takes about 1 minute.

Uh? So generating the PDF is much quicker than generating the HTML?
That's strange, but if true, then I'm happy about it.

> Actually the layout of the resulting pdf file differs from the original one
> as I used only standard scripts without any adoption to the PostgreSQL
> styles.

Surely this can be sorted out.

> Additionally I'm missing some of the links.

Not sure what you mean here.

Did you figure a way to generate the INSTALL file?

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