On Friday 01 March 2002 00:45, Adam Fowler wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm an administrator on the Tomcat-Book project (see sig) and am looking > for an easy way to write DocBook XML documents. Also, certain parts of > the DocBook to FO (And thus PDF) XSL stylesheets seem to be broken. I > was wondering if you could answer a couple of questions:-
Welcome. :-) I'm not the author of db2lyx (Ben G. is), but I hope to be able to answer some of your questions. > I just tried following the guidelines for adding DocBook XML support via > db2lyx and it failed miserably. I finally got the thing to configure, > then after restarting and re-configuring lyx and re-starting again, the > import/export options were still not available! Any ideas? I think this > may be related to the persisting LyX bug whereby after LyX creates my > $HOME/.lyx directory, upon re-starting the thing hangs on the welcome > screen. I did report this as a bug but it was subsequently closed > without resolution (I think the reason was that no-one else could > re-produce the problem!). This happened on 1.1.6 and I am now using > 1.2.0CVS (Not the latest copy though, I admit) One of the possible causes for that problem is the xforms library compiled for a different glibc, other than the one you have. > Is there a general guideline of how to add import/export functions? LyX > is a great app but it would be nice if this function worked, and with > the minimum of fuss. I believe it would really make the usage of LyX > take off, considering how popular DocBook XML seems to be becoming. I > may have a bash at it in the next few weeks to get it working. (Its only > perl/python anyway ;) Easy! *cough*) A simple interactive install script > should do the job. That can be done configuring the different input and output formats, can't it? > Also, does anyone know if db2lyx supports XML entities? I would have a > trawl through the source but its midnight and I need my beauty sleep I would expect it to be supported. > (yes, I'm lazy). On the project we have a main file with the DTD in that > declares some entities and then imports them. They basically refer to a > chapter each which exist in sub-directories of the main tomcatbook.xml > file's directory. With multiple developers, this is pretty fundamental. Oh, you mean those. Yes, it does. > I suppose it is possible to write an import/export filter that takes a > chapter XML document, adds the required top level elements, notes where > they are, then imports the file. Then on exporting, removes the top > level elements again. Its all a bit complex, mind. db2lyx could use some of the existing layout files, such as docbook-chapter. > I'm on Mandrake 8.1 if that helps. I would list the relevant library > versions, but I'm not sure how helpful they would be finding the rather > annoying LyX freeze bug. > > Any other options would be gratefully received. Please what it works, and what is broken, so that we can fix them. > Cheers, > > Adam. -- José Abílio
