it's been quite a while since we released a new DAPS version, but we finally managed to push out version 2.2.0 a few days before DAPS 5th birthday.
Withe the help of Tomáš Bažant and Christoph Berg we finally managed to fully support Debian and Ubuntu. Previous DAPS releases required manual fixes to get DocBook5 support on these distributions. Version 2.2.0 also adds support for SVG images in HTML builds and makes it easier to debug your XML sources. A lot of bugs have been fixed, most notably two annoying issues on ePUB builds. See below for a complete list of changes.
new subcommand `xmlformat' prettyfies the XML sources of a given DC-file or ROOTID using daps-xmlformat with /etc/daps/docbook-xmlformat.conf. (Note: this command will modify the original XML sources!)
SVG image support for HTML builds. To use it, make sure to provide the images in SVG format and reference to them as follows:
the new global switch --jobs lets you specify how many parallel jobs to use. The default is set to the number of CPU cores (as was done in previous versions).
all commands generating file lists (e.g. list-srcfiles) now generate human readable output on STDOUT. When the output goes to a pipe or subshell, it will be generated as a a one-liner.
Debugging of XML errors has been made easier. Sometimes the error message of the validator only points to an xi:include line, making it impossible to find the real location of the error. The option --novalid for the target bigfile will create the bigfile without performing a validation check on the sources. A single XML will be built and validated. Now the error message points to the exact location of the error in the bigfile. From there it should be easy to find the error in the original sources.
Verbose and debugging output now also show all profiling attributes set in the DC-file, plus version information for the sytlesheets (if available)
added the option --norefchecks to all output-generating targets (html, pdf, ...), validate, bigfile and others. Allows to build/validate documents without checking internal links (<... linkend="ID">).
subcommand online-docs now always converts the bigfile that is created to NovDoc. To keep the same format as the original sources, specify --dbnoconv. To create a DocBook4 bigfile from DocBook5 sources, specify --db5todb4.
Bugfixes:
368: db4tonovdoc.xsl generates invalid NovDoc
367: daps does not validate fop output
366: Spellcheck trying to check the files "Cannot", "stat:", "No", "such", "file" ...
364: DocBook5: Allow validating without checking xrefs
363: Allow building a bigfile from invalid sources
362: Make the number of parallel jobs configurable
361: Externel xrefs are resolved to "????"
360: Check Rootid fails on Debian 8.4.0
356: file list output should default to pretty format
354: Validate the result of online docs when it has been converted from DB5 to DB4 or novdoc
353: Make db5 to db4 conversion default for online-docs
351, 348, 342, 282: Fixes for the daps spec-file
346: daps-xmlformat writes its messages into the output
343: daps-init warning messages
340: ePUB builds always show remarks
335: on Debian, make install creates incorrect group in /etc/xml/config
330: Enable SVG2Grayscale stylesheet to handle new color names
305: locdrop produces no "non-trans" image tarball for a complete set
301: SVG to PNG conversion creates very large PNGs
289: Verbose / Debugging Output Should Show Profiling Attributes
251: Write XSLT to Return xml-model PI
226: Let stylesheets know which version of DAPS calls them
subcommand "clean-all" fails if run from within a directory that will be removed with that command
daps fails when called from a directory that no longer exists
Cross-Distribution Support
first release with full Debian/Ubuntu support--manual adjustments after the installation are no longer needed (was required in previous releases for DocBook5 support). Many thanks to Tomáš Bažant and Christoph Berg for their help!
Hi,
it's been quite a while since we released a new DAPS version, but we finally managed to push out version 2.2.0 a few days before DAPS 5th birthday.
Withe the help of Tomáš Bažant and Christoph Berg we finally managed to fully support Debian and Ubuntu. Previous DAPS releases required manual fixes to get DocBook5 support on these distributions. Version 2.2.0 also adds support for SVG images in HTML builds and makes it easier to debug your XML sources. A lot of bugs have been fixed, most notably two annoying issues on ePUB builds. See below for a complete list of changes.
Download DAPS 2.2.0.
For download alternatives and installation instructions refer to the installation instructions.
New Features:
--jobslets you specify how many parallel jobs to use. The default is set to the number of CPU cores (as was done in previous versions).list-srcfiles) now generate human readable output on STDOUT. When the output goes to a pipe or subshell, it will be generated as a a one-liner.--novalidfor the targetbigfilewill create the bigfile without performing a validation check on the sources. A single XML will be built and validated. Now the error message points to the exact location of the error in the bigfile. From there it should be easy to find the error in the original sources.--norefchecksto all output-generating targets (html,pdf, ...),validate,bigfileand others. Allows to build/validate documents without checking internal links (<... linkend="ID">).online-docsnow always converts the bigfile that is created to NovDoc. To keep the same format as the original sources, specify--dbnoconv. To create a DocBook4 bigfile from DocBook5 sources, specify--db5todb4.Bugfixes:
Cross-Distribution Support
Misc:
daps-envconvert, a script for converting susedoc ENV-files to DAPS DC-files. susedoc was the predecessor of DAPS.Documentation: