| 1 | Ok, so you have downloaded the XML source. Now what? You are probably
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| 2 | wanting to convert these XML files to easier to read HTML, PS, PDF, TXT
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| 3 | or other formatted files. All that can be read below.
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| 4 |
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| 5 | Let's start by downloading some software.
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| 6 |
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| 7 | If all you want to do is being able to convert XML to HTML download the
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| 8 | following:
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| 9 |
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| 10 | OpenJade - http://openjade.sourceforge.net/
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| 11 | DocBook-XML DTD - http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.1.2/
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| 12 | Modified DocBook Entities -
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| 13 | http://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/docbook-4.1.2-newent.tar.bz2
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| 14 | DSSSL DocBook Stylesheets - http://www.nwalsh.com/docbook/dsssl/
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| 15 |
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| 16 | As the DocBook DTD and Stylesheets are made available as a zip achives you
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| 17 | may need to download the unzip package as well if your Linux system doesn't
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| 18 | have one:
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| 19 |
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| 20 | Unzip - ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/src/
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| 21 |
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| 22 | If you want to be able to convert the book into PS and PDF as well I
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| 23 | recommend using the Htmldoc program. This takes a html file (created
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| 24 | with openjade which you already downloaded) and converts it to PS or
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| 25 | PDF:
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| 26 |
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| 27 | HTMLDOC - http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/
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| 28 | FLTK (X front-end) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/fltk
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| 29 |
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| 30 | If you want to be able to convert the book into TXT as well I recommend
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| 31 | using lynx to convert HTML to TXT using the -dump option to lynx.
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| 32 |
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| 33 | Lynx - http://lynx.browser.org
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| 34 |
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| 35 | You have everything you need now. Let's install this stuff.
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| 36 |
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| 37 | Create the /usr/share/docbook directory, cd into it and unpack the
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| 38 | docbook-xml dtd archive there. Move all the files and directories from
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| 39 | the newly created subdirectory to the current directory
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| 40 | (/usr/share/docbook). We don't really need a
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| 41 | /usr/share/docbook/docbook-<version> subdir for our purposes.
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| 42 |
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| 43 | Remove the ent directory and unpack the docbook-4.1.2-newent.tar.bz2 file.
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| 44 | This will create a new ent directory with entity files that work better
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| 45 | with XML.
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| 46 |
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| 47 | Create the /usr/share/dsssl directory, cd into it and unpack the dsssl
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| 48 | stylesheet archive in there. Rename the directory that's created by tar
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| 49 | into 'docbook'. Now create a symlink to the blfs.dsl file you will find
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| 50 | in the BLFS-BOOK XML archive in /usr/share/dsssl/docbook/html
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| 51 |
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| 52 | The last step is installing OpenJade.
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| 53 |
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| 54 | In order for openjade to be able to convert the DocBook based documents
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| 55 | into other formats, it needs to know where the DocBook DTD related
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| 56 | files are located. This is sort of the DocBook equivalent for the $PATH
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| 57 | variable. You have two ways of doing this:
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| 58 |
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| 59 | 1) You can set the $SGML_CATALOG_FILES variable and include the full
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| 60 | paths to the catalog files in it
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| 61 | or
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| 62 | 2) You can hard-code the paths into the openjade binary.
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| 63 |
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| 64 | If you choose option 1, add the following to your bash configuration
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| 65 | file, system wide profile or wherever you wish to include it:
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| 66 |
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| 67 | export SGML_CATALOG_FILES=/usr/share/docbook/docbook.cat:/usr/share/dsssl/docbook/catalog:/usr/share/dsssl/openjade/catalog
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| 68 |
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| 69 | Followed by installing openjade by running:
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| 70 | ./configure --prefix=/usr
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| 71 | make
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| 72 | make install
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| 73 | cp -av dsssl /usr/share/dsssl/openjade
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| 74 |
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| 75 | If you choose option 2, install OpenJade as follows:
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| 76 |
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| 77 | ./configure --prefix=/usr \
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| 78 | --enable-default-catalog=/usr/share/docbook/docbook.cat:/usr/share/dsssl/docbook/catalog:/usr/share/dsssl/openjade/catalog
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| 79 | make
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| 80 | make install
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| 81 | cp -av dsssl /usr/share/dsssl/openjade
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| 82 |
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| 83 | And you don't have to worry about the $SGML_CATALOG_FILES variable in
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| 84 | this case.
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| 85 |
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| 86 |
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| 87 | You're all set to convert XML to HTML (among a few other formats
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| 88 | supported by openjade) now. If you want to convert to PS and PDF as
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| 89 | well, install the following two packages.
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| 90 |
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| 91 | FLTK (you can skip this one if you don't want the X front-end):
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| 92 | ./configure --prefix=/usr
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| 93 | make
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| 94 | make install
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| 95 |
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| 96 | HTMLDOC:
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| 97 | Install by running:
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| 98 |
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| 99 | ./configure --prefix=/usr
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| 100 | make
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| 101 | make install
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| 102 |
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| 103 |
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| 104 |
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| 105 | The last package is Lynx which will be used for the HTML to TXT
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| 106 | conversion. Install it by running:
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| 107 |
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| 108 | ./configure --prefix=/usr
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| 109 | make
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| 110 | make install
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| 111 |
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| 112 | There, all set now. Go back to the README file for some examples how to
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| 113 | convert this XML to the various other formats.
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| 114 |
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