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1 <html><head><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Implementation Notes</title><meta content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.65.1" name="generator"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="html2db.xsl"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="html2db.xsl"><link rel="previous" href="ar01s09.html" title="FAQ"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table summary="Navigation header" width="100%"><tr><th align="center" colspan="3">Implementation Notes</th></tr><tr><td align="left" width="20%"><a accesskey="p" href="ar01s09.html">Prev</a> </td><th align="center" width="60%"> </th><td align="right" width="20%"> </td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="N10414"></a>Implementation Notes</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p></p><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="N10418"></a>Bugs</h3></div></div><div></div></div><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc" compact="compact"><li><p>Improperly sequenced <tt class="literal">h<i class="replaceable"><tt>n</tt></i></tt> (for example
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2 <tt class="literal">h1</tt> followed by <tt class="literal">h3</tt>, instead of
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3 <tt class="literal">h2</tt>) will result in duplicate text.</p></li></ul></div><p></p></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="N1042F"></a>Limitations</h3></div></div><div></div></div><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc" compact="compact"><li><p>The <tt class="literal">id</tt> attribute is only preserved for certain
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4 elements (at least <tt class="literal">h<i class="replaceable"><tt>n</tt></i></tt>, images, paragraphs, and
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5 tables). It ought to be preserved for all of them.</p></li><li><p>Only the <a href="ar01s07.html#tables" title="Tables">very simplest</a> table format is
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6 implemented.</p></li><li><p>Always uses compact lists.</p></li><li><p>The string matching for <tt class="literal"><?html2b
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7 class="<i class="replaceable"><tt>classname</tt></i>"?></tt> requires an exact match
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8 (spaces and all).</p></li><li><p>The <a href="ar01s07.html#implicit-blocks" title="Implicit Blocks">implicit blocks</a> code is easily
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9 confused, as documented in that section. This is
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10 easy to fix now that I understand the difference between block and
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11 inline elements (I didn't when I was implementing this), but I
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12 probably won't do so until I run into the problem again.</p></li></ul></div><p></p></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="N1045A"></a>Wishlist</h3></div></div><div></div></div><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc" compact="compact"><li><p>Allow <tt class="literal"><html2db attribute-name="<i class="replaceable"><tt>name</tt></i>"
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13 value="<i class="replaceable"><tt>value</tt></i>"?></tt> at any position, to set arbitrary
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14 Docbook attributes on the generated element.</p></li><li><p>Use different technique from the <a href="ar01s07.html#docbook-elements" title="Docbook Elements">fake
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15 namespace prefix</a> to name Docbook elements in the source, that
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16 preserves the XHTML validity of the source file. For example, an
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17 option transform <tt class="literal"><div class="db:footnote"></tt> into
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18 <tt class="literal"><footnote></tt>, or to use a processing attribute
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19 (<tt class="literal"><div><?html2db classname="footnote"?></tt>).</p></li><li><p>Parse DC metadata from XHTML <tt class="literal">html/head/meta</tt>.</p></li><li><p>Add an option to use <tt class="literal">html/head/title</tt> instead of
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20 <tt class="literal">html/body/h1[1]</tt> for top title.</p></li><li><p>Allow an <tt class="literal">id</tt> on every element.</p></li><li><p>Add an option to translate the XHTML <tt class="literal">class</tt> into a
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21 Docbook <tt class="literal">role</tt>.</p></li><li><p>Preserve more of the whitespace from the source document especially within lists and tables in order to make it easier to debug the output document.</p></li></ul></div><p></p></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="N1049D"></a>Design Notes</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p></p><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h4 class="title"><a name="docbook-namespace"></a>The Docbook Namespace</h4></div></div><div></div></div><p><tt class="literal">html2db.xsl</tt> accepts elements in the "Docbook namespace" in XHTML
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22 source. This namespace is <tt class="literal">urn:docbook</tt>.</p><p>This isn't technically correct. Docbook doesn't really have a
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23 namespace, and if it did, it wouldn't be this one. <a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3151.html" target="_top">RFC 3151</a> suggests
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24 <tt class="literal">urn:publicid:-:OASIS:DTD+DocBook+XML+V4.1.2:EN</tt> as the
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25 Docbook namespace.</p><p>There two problems with the RFC 3151 namespace. First, it's long
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26 and hard to remember. Second, it's limited to Docbook v4.1.2
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27 but <tt class="literal">html2db.xsl</tt> works with other versions of Docbook too, which would
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28 presumably have other namespaces. I think it's more useful to
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29 <span class="em">under</span>specify the Docbook version in the spec for this tool.
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30 Docbook itself underspecifies the version completely, by avoiding a
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31 namespace at all, but when mixing Docbook and XHTML elements I find it
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32 useful to be <span class="em">more</span> specific than that.</p><p></p></div></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="N104C3"></a>History</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p>The original version of <tt class="literal">html2db.xsl</tt> was written by <a href="http://osteele.com" target="_top">Oliver Steele</a>, as part of the <a href="http://laszlosystems.com" target="_top">Laszlo Systems, Inc.</a> documentation
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33 effort. We had a set of custom stylesheets that formatted and added
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34 linking information to programming-language elements such as
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35 <tt class="literal">classname</tt> and <tt class="literal">tagname</tt>, and added
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36 Table-of-Contents to chapter documentation and numbers examples.</p><p>As the documentation set grew, the doc team (John Sundman)
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37 requested features such as inter-chapter navigation, callouts, and
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38 index and glossary elements. I was able to beat all of these back
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39 except for navigation, which seemed critical. After a few days trying
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40 to implement this, I decided it would be simpler to convert the subset
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41 of XHTML that we used into a subset of Docbook, and use the latter to
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42 add navigation. (Once this was done, the other features came for
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43 free.)</p><p>During my August 2004 "sabbatical", I factored the general html2db
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44 code out from the Laszlo-specific code, refactored and otherwise
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45 cleaned it up, and wrote this documentation.</p><p></p></div><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="N104DE"></a>Credits</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p><tt class="literal">html2db.xsl</tt> was written by <a href="http://osteele.com" target="_top">Oliver Steele</a>, as part of the <a href="http://laszlosystems.com" target="_top">Laszlo Systems, Inc.</a> documentation effort.</p><p></p></div></div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table summary="Navigation footer" width="100%"><tr><td align="left" width="40%"><a accesskey="p" href="ar01s09.html">Prev</a> </td><td align="center" width="20%"><a accesskey="u" href="index.html">Up</a></td><td align="right" width="40%"> </td></tr><tr><td valign="top" align="left" width="40%">FAQ </td><td align="center" width="20%"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a></td><td valign="top" align="right" width="40%"> </td></tr></table></div></body></html> |
