AsciiDoc DocBook XSL Stylesheets Notes

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- »Home »Man Page »User Guide »a2x »API »Cheatsheet »README »ChangeLog »Installation »Downloads »FAQ »Tests »Support »Page Source | # AsciiDoc DocBook XSL Stylesheets Notes PDF generation from AsciiDoc generated DocBook using FOP plus DocBook XSL Stylesheets. FOP 0.95beta. DocBook XSL Stylesheets version 1.74.0. 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/. 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