docbook2html and dssl stylesheet defines

docbook2html and dssl stylesheet defines

[Alan Westhagen]

I am a new user of docbook2html and the other jw scripts.  I am using the
docbook-tools package as distributed with RH8.0.  Most functions are
working fine, but I would like to choose a few different options.

I notice that in the docbook-utils.dsl stylesheet file  (which is a 
version of
Norman Walsh's Modular Stylesheets) a lot of option variables are defined.
Is there a way to change these options on the docbook2html command line?
Or do I have to change the stylesheet itself?

Any hints would be much appreciated.

Alan

Re: docbook2html and dssl stylesheet defines

[Tim Waugh]

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On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 04:12:49PM -0700, Alan Westhagen wrote:

> I notice that in the docbook-utils.dsl stylesheet file (which is a
> version of Norman Walsh's Modular Stylesheets) a lot of option
> variables are defined.  Is there a way to change these options on
> the docbook2html command line?  Or do I have to change the
> stylesheet itself?

As the man page suggests, the --dsl option is for this.

Tim.
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Re: docbook2html and dssl stylesheet defines

[Alan Westhagen]

Tim,

Thank you for the quick response.  Something that is not clear
to me from the man page is whether or not it is possible to
have more than one --dsl option, and if so, what is the
precedence for applying them?  I would like to write a
small file containing the definitions that I need to override,
and have that merged with the default file.  If that is
not supported, what would be a "best practice" approach
to redefining a small number of style sheet variables?

Alan

Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 04:12:49PM -0700, Alan Westhagen wrote:
> 
> 
>>I notice that in the docbook-utils.dsl stylesheet file (which is a
>>version of Norman Walsh's Modular Stylesheets) a lot of option
>>variables are defined.  Is there a way to change these options on
>>the docbook2html command line?  Or do I have to change the
>>stylesheet itself?
> 
> 
> As the man page suggests, the --dsl option is for this.
> 
> Tim.
> */

Re: docbook2html and dssl stylesheet defines

[Tim Waugh]

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On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 09:20:45AM -0700, Alan Westhagen wrote:

> Thank you for the quick response.  Something that is not clear
> to me from the man page is whether or not it is possible to
> have more than one --dsl option,

You cannot.

> I would like to write a small file containing the definitions that I
> need to override, and have that merged with the default file.

I think you can include other .dsl files using DSSSL (I may be wrong).

Tim.
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Re: docbook2html and dssl stylesheet defines

[Éric Bischoff]

Le Thursday 10 April 2003 18:20, Alan Westhagen a écrit:
> Tim,
>
> Thank you for the quick response.  Something that is not clear
> to me from the man page is whether or not it is possible to
> have more than one --dsl option, and if so, what is the
> precedence for applying them?  I would like to write a
> small file containing the definitions that I need to override,
> and have that merged with the default file.  If that is
> not supported, what would be a "best practice" approach
> to redefining a small number of style sheet variables?

I would say the best practice would be to include the DSSSL files you override 
from your own file.

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