On vrijdag 8 juli 2011, SASAKI Suguru wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for reviewing. > > 2011-07-08 Geert Janssens <janssens-ge...@telenet.be>: > > Ok, I have taken a closer look your your tweaks. > > > > I have a few questions: > > 1. I notice you use a ruby script to convert to epub. Why did you choose > > that instead of the standard docbook xsl transformation ? The epub > > stylesheet is not part of our repository because we never used it > > before, but it can be added easily. > > I know that we can convert DocBook to XHTML with standard XSLT, > and then convert XHTML to EPUB with somthing like calbre. > > This Ruby script came from DocBook project(, and packaged as dbtoepub > in Debian (sid)). > README about this script at > <URL:http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/epub/README> says, > > | These are XSL stylesheets for transforming DocBook XML document > | instances into .epub format. > | [...] > | An alpha-quality reference implementation (dbtoepub) for a DocBook to > | .epub converter (written in Ruby) is available under bin/. > > They say these scripts and XSL stylesheets are alpha-quality, > but I think this is somewhat specialized for EPUB generation > and we can get better results with these > than going through DocBook -> XHTML -> EPUB on our own. > I didn't realize the ruby script came from the docbook project, but I've found it now as well on my system. I wonder if this script is required to generate the epub format, or if it's just a wrapper around a generic xslt transformation. I haven't experimented with this yet and I won't have much time for it in the next couple of weeks. So I'm very interested in the results of your experiments in this regard.
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