From cfc25769dfc8300865339f7be2a21dd09ac01dca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Smith Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:41:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Created dbxsl-ns section and added myself to list of contributors. --- docbook/relaxng/docbook/howto/howto.xml | 42 ++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/docbook/relaxng/docbook/howto/howto.xml b/docbook/relaxng/docbook/howto/howto.xml index 4ce832737..6e35af8eb 100644 --- a/docbook/relaxng/docbook/howto/howto.xml +++ b/docbook/relaxng/docbook/howto/howto.xml @@ -18,8 +18,16 @@ Dick Hamilton rlhamilton@frii.com §changes-removed, customization, proofreading +Michael(tm) Smith + smith@sideshowbarker.net + §dbxsl-ns + +2007-12-25 2006-10-22 2006-05-16 2006-03-01 @@ -510,13 +518,8 @@ additional message: Processing stripped document. Although you can successfully use the existing stylesheets to -process DocBook V5.0, there are some limitations. To support some of -the new features of DocBook V5.0, the existing stylesheets would -require a significant rewrite. -A rewrite is unlikely because a new version of stylesheets is currently -under development. - -The unsupported features include: +process DocBook V5.0, there are some limitations and unsupported +features. The unsupported features include: general annotations; @@ -534,15 +537,26 @@ possible that there are corner cases where they will fail. with DocBook V5.0 you have to use profiling variants of those stylesheets (their name is starting with profile-). - -As you can see namespace stripping could cause troubles in some -situations. To overcome those limitations Bob Stayton created -a special version of the DocBook XSL stylesheets which doesn't use -namespace stripping and supports only DocBook V5.0. You can get those -experimental stylesheets from . + +
+DocBook XSL-NS Stylesheets +As you can see from reading the previous section, namespace + stripping has limitations that will cause trouble in some + situations. To overcome those limitations, Bob Stayton created a + build system for taking the non-namespace-aware DocBook XSL + stylesheets and generating namespace-aware versions from them. + The DocBook XSL-NS stylesheets are the result. + +The DocBook XSL-NS stylesheets are released side-by-side + with the DocBook XSL stylesheets, as a separate docbook-xsl-ns package. They are the +recommended XSLT 1.0 stylesheets to use for transforming +namespaced (DocBook 5) documents.
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