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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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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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 - http://www2.linuxfromscratch.org/
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13 | DSSSL DocBook Stylesheets - http://www.nwalsh.com/docbook/dsssl/
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14 |
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15 | As the DocBook DTD and Stylesheets are made available as a zip achives you
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16 | may need to download the unzip package as well if your Linux system doesn't
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17 | have one:
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18 |
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19 | Unzip - ftp://ftp.uu.net/pub/archiving/zip/src/
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20 |
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21 | If you want to be able to convert the book into PS and PDF as well I
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22 | recommend using the Htmldoc program. This takes a html file (created
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23 | with openjade which you already downloaded) and converts it to PS or
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24 | PDF:
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25 |
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26 | HTMLDOC - http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/
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27 | FLTK (X front-end) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/fltk
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28 |
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29 | If you want to be able to convert the book into TXT as well I recommend
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30 | using links to convert HTML to TXT using the -dump option to links.
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31 |
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32 | Links - http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/
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33 |
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34 | You have everything you need now. Let's install this stuff.
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35 |
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36 | Create the /usr/share/docbook directory, cd into it and unpack the
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37 | docbook-xml dtd archive there.
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38 |
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39 | Remove the ent directory and unpack the docbook-4.1.2-newent.tar.bz2 file.
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40 | This will create a new ent directory with entity files that work better
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41 | with XML.
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42 |
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43 | Create the /usr/share/dsssl directory, cd into it and unpack the dsssl
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44 | stylesheet archive in there. Rename the directory that's created by tar
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45 | into 'docbook'. Now copy the lfs.dsl file you will find in
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46 | the LFS-BOOK XML archive into /usr/share/dsssl/docbook/html
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47 |
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48 | The last step is installing OpenJade.
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49 |
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50 | In order for openjade to be able to convert the DocBook based documents
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51 | into other formats, it needs to know where the DocBook DTD related
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52 | files are located. This is sort of the DocBook equivalent for the $PATH
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53 | variable. You have two ways of doing this:
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54 |
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55 | 1) You can set the $SGML_CATALOG_FILES variable and include the full
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56 | paths to the catalog files in it
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57 | or
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58 | 2) You can hard-code the paths into the openjade binary.
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59 |
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60 | If you choose option 1, add the following to your bash configuration
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61 | file, system wide profile or wherever you wish to include it:
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63 | export SGML_CATALOG_FILES=/usr/share/docbook/docbook.cat:/usr/share/dsssl/docbook/catalog:/usr/share/dsssl/openjade/catalog
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64 |
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65 | Followed by installing openjade by running:
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66 | ./configure --prefix=/usr
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67 | make
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68 | make install
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69 | cp -av dsssl /usr/share/dsssl/openjade
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70 |
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71 | If you choose option 2, install OpenJade as follows:
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73 | ./configure --prefix=/usr \
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74 | > --enable-default-catalog=/usr/share/docbook/docbook.cat:/usr/share/dsssl/docbook/catalog:/usr/share/dsssl/openjade/catalog
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75 | make
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76 | make install
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77 | cp -av dsssl /usr/share/dsssl/openjade
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78 |
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79 | And you don't have to worry about the $SGML_CATALOG_FILES variable in
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80 | this case.
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81 |
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82 |
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83 | You're all set to convert XML to HTML (among a few other formats
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84 | supported by openjade) now. If you want to convert to PS and PDF as
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85 | well, install the following two packages.
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86 |
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87 | FLTK (you can skip this one if you don't want the X front-end):
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88 | ./configure --prefix=/usr
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89 | make
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90 | make install
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91 |
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92 | HTMLDOC:
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93 | Install by running:
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94 |
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95 | ./configure --prefix=/usr
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96 | make
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97 | make install
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98 |
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99 |
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101 | The last package is Links which will be used for the HTML to TXT
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102 | conversion. Install it by running:
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103 |
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104 | ./configure --prefix=/usr
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105 | make
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106 | make install
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107 |
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108 | There, all set now. Go back to the README file for some examples how to
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109 | convert this XML to the various other formats.
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110 |
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