[davinci-develop] HOWTO: Generate PDF's, HTML's from DocBook Files

[Taj M. <ta...@wi...>]

Hi All,
As you might of noticed, I just committed a bunch to CVS today :D...Sorry!

Here's how to generate (X)HTML file(s) from a DocBook file:
cd to the directory which contains the docbook file. (davinci/docs?)
xsltproc -o AboutPlugins.html xsl/html/docbook.xsl AboutPlugins.xml

To generate a PDF, you need need fop from the Apache Project:
http://xml.apache.org/fop/ (if you don't already have it).

Then, run
~/fop-0.20.5/fop.sh -xml AboutPlugins.xml -xsl 
docbook-xsl-1.66.0/fo/tldp-print.xsl -pdf AboutPlugins.pdf

(given that you untarred the fop binary into your home directory).

Have fun!

(Note that I accidently called the xsl xls...I asked SF support to 
rename it, I'll assume they'll do it soon.)

-- 
Taj

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