AsciiDoc DocBook XSL Stylesheets Notes ====================================== Output file customisation is achieved by tweaking the DocBook XSL stylesheets. I've tried to keep customization to a minimum and confine it to the separate XSL driver files in the distribution `./docbook-xsl/` directory (see the User Guide for details). To polish some rough edges I've written some patches for the DocBook XSL stylesheets -- you don't need them but they're documented below and included in the distribution `./docbook-xsl/` directory. Manually upgrading Debian to the latest DocBook XSL stylesheets --------------------------------------------------------------- The DocBook XSL Stylesheets distribution is just a directory full of text files and you can switch between releases by changing the directory name in the system XML catalog. To upgrade to the latest docbook-xsl stylesheets without having to wait for the Debian `docbook-xsl` package: - Download the latest docbook-xsl tarball from http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/. Bleeding edge snapshots can be found at http://docbook.sourceforge.net/snapshots/ - Unzip the tarball to `/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/`: $ cd /usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet $ sudo tar -xzf /tmp/docbook-xsl-1.72.0.tar.gz - Edit `/etc/xml/docbook-xsl.xml` catalog and replace occurences of the current stylesheets directory with the new one (in our example it would be `/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/docbook-xsl-1.72.0`. $ cd /etc/xml/ $ sudo cp -p docbook-xsl.xml docbook-xsl.xml.ORIG $ sudo vi docbook-xsl.xml Customizing Generated Text -------------------------- An example http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/CustomGentext.html#CustomGenText[DocBook XSL Stylesheets customization file] for formatting chapter titles without chapter numbering. .custom-chapter.xml --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Executed with this 'xsltproc' parameter: --param local.l10n.xml document\(\'custom-chapter.xml\'\) NOTE: This example is hypothetical -- use the 'xsltproc' `--stringparam chapter.autolabel 0` option to do the same job.