[OpenSER-Docs] migrating sgml to xml

Edson 4lists at gmail.com
Mon Mar 3 21:51:46 CET 2008


Yep...

But, while we wait, I'll prepare some script to change, at least, the parts
that You pointed... then I'll send the list a copy so it is available to
everybody to start tweak as soon SVN is updated...

Edson

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel-Constantin Mierla [mailto:miconda at gmail.com]
>Sent: segunda-feira, 3 de março de 2008 17:46
>To: Edson
>Cc: openser-docs at lists.openser.org
>Subject: Re: [OpenSER-Docs] migrating sgml to xml
>
>Hello,
>
>On 03/03/08 22:28, Edson wrote:
>> Hi, Dan..
>>
>> If the steps that You follow could be applied to all SGML DOC files, then
>> what about a script to do the job? I can handle this script, but need
>> detailed instructions to follow...
>>
>I think the only steps that can be automatized is the removal of the
>sgml header and adding the xml one and changing the extension from sgml
>to xml (there are entities referenced to user, devel and faq files).
>
>For sgml the header was:
>
><!DOCTYPE Book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.2//EN" [
>
>Now for xml should be:
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding='ISO-8859-1'?>
><!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
>        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd"
>[
>
>In sgml was:
>
><!ENTITY user SYSTEM "dispatcher_user.sgml">
><!ENTITY faq SYSTEM "dispatcher_faq.sgml">
>
>In xml should be:
>
><!ENTITY user SYSTEM "dispatcher_user.xml">
><!ENTITY faq SYSTEM "dispatcher_faq.xml">
>
>The rest I did were errors and had to be fixed by hand.
>
>However, first we have to wait for Henning to commit the updated version
>following the latest patch you sent. The we can work, having a working
>sgml version.
>
>Cheers,
>Daniel
>
>> Edson
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: openser-docs-bounces at lists.openser.org [mailto:openser-docs-
>>> bounces at lists.openser.org] On Behalf Of Daniel-Constantin Mierla
>>> Sent: segunda-feira, 3 de março de 2008 17:21
>>> To: openser-docs at lists.openser.org
>>> Subject: [OpenSER-Docs] migrating sgml to xml
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> thinking about migrating to xml from the sgml, I found a good tutorial:
>>> http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/index.html
>>>
>>> Following some guidelines there, I was able to migrate the doc for
>>> dispatcher in just few steps:
>>> - renamed extension from sgml to xml
>>> - changed the header of disptacher.xml to conform xml structure and link
>>> to dtd
>>> - fixed some bogus entities defined in doc/entities.sgml (I made a local
>>> copy to entities.xml)
>>> - fixed some unclosed <para> tags in disptacher_user.xml
>>> - run this futuristic command (in modules/dispatcher/doc/):
>>> xsltproc --stringparam html.stylesheet ../../../doc/docbook.css
>>> --stringparam section.autolabel 1 --stringparam
>>> section.label.includes.component.label 1 -o dispatcher.html
>>> /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/html/docbook.xsl dispatcher.xml
>>> - to get the readme txt format:
>>> lynx -force_html -dump -nolist -width=72 dispatcher.html >dispatcher.txt
>>>
>>> I downloaded http://www.openser.org/css/docbook.css in openser/doc/
>>> folder, so I got the same look on my local generated html files as for
>>> the ones on the openser.org. The extra option now is that each chapter
>>> has its own table of content (can be removed via some option, but I
>>> didn't dig in more).
>>>
>>> It was not that painful, but will require some work, when coming to all
>>> modules. I propose to add the docbook.css in the openser SVN under doc
>>> folder, maybe renamed as "openser-docbook.css". Also, a copy of
>>> entities.sgml as entities.xml with the required fixes (the sgml version
>>> will be removed once migration is complete).
>>>
>>> I believe makes no sense to add support for mixed doc sources -- meaning
>>> here that some modules have sgml and some xml. If we can sync 3-4
>>> people, and split the modules among, we can get the work done in few
>>> days. In this case, we will go directly in replacing the generation of
>>> html from sgml to xml. Will be useless work to add intermediary support
>>> in Makefile and try to detect whether is sgml or xml.
>>>
>>> Any comment?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>
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