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