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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