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Category: DocBook

  • DocBook XSL, the book – where can I download the samples from?

    I have a copy of that book (paper so far), and I am tempted to use certain smples. Other publishers supply you with TAR balls, that you can download from their web-sites, so that you can play with the samples. I didn’t find that mentioned in that book, but to be honest with you: I haven’t yet read this book all through, I rather assume I will only look up certain things occasionally, and actually this is just my “thank you!” to Bob Stayton, the brave DocBook warrior.

    Looks like you can only copy+paste the code from the PDF (purchase it!)  or from the free HTML.

  • DocBook XSL, the book – incorrect IRC channel

    DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide – 4th Edition, Chapter 1. Introduction,  Online resources for finding solutions to problems (the paper book and the online version as well) says, that the IRC channel of DocBook would be at irc://irc.openprojects.net#docbook, but it actually is at irc://irc.freenode.net#docbook.

    http://www.docbook.org/help had the right information.

    This is not on their Errata yet, and I told webmaster(AT)sagehill.net about this problem in the meantime. I only wondered for a very, very short time, whether anybody will ever come back to me.
    Bob Stayton (himself) answered at 2010-07-06 22:12:18 (my time at Berlin, ie. only an hour or so later):

    Apparently it changed since that was written.
    I’ll put the new address in the next edition and add to the Errata.
    Thanks for the report.

    As I said, I will update this here, once I will notice their update.

  • Catalyst based CMSs

    According to cms.wikia.com/wiki/Impl these are the current Catalyst (so esp. implemented in perl)
     based CMSs:

    Can anybody help me selecting “the right one”?

    O, what do I want to use it for?
    I got a few web-sites, most of them more or less plain text (HTML!), generated from DocBook, and I want them to look a little more spicy, maybe with a left and a right column and all that.
    Alright, coming from DocBook maybe I should also have a look at DocBook website, a variant of DocBook for dealing with websites. But I want to consider the alternatives.