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authorGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-02-22 18:21:07 +0000
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+Ok, so you have downloaded the XML source. Now what? You are probably
+wanting to convert these XML files to easier to read HTML, PS, PDF, txt
+or other formatted files. All that can be read below.
+
+Let's start by downloading some software.
+
+If all you want to do is being able to convert XML to HTML download the
+following:
+
+OpenJade - http://openjade.sourceforge.net
+DocBook-XML DTD - http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.1.2/
+DSSSL DocBook Stylesheets - http://www.nwalsh.com/docbook/dsssl/
+
+As the DocBook DTD and Stylesheets are made available as a zip achives you
+may need to download the unzip package as well if your Linux system doesn't
+have one:
+
+Unzip - ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/src/
+
+If you want to be able to convert the book into PS and PDF as well I
+recommend using the Htmldoc program. This takes a html file (created
+with openjade which you already downloaded) and converts it to PS or
+PDF:
+
+HTMLDOC - http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc/
+FLTK (X front-end) - http://sourceforge.net/projects/fltk
+
+If you want to be able to convert the book into TXT as well I recommend
+using lynx to convert HTML to TXT using the -dump option to lynx. There
+are most likely better programs to do this, but Lynx is often installed
+on systems anyways (as a console based web browser).
+
+Lynx - http://lynx.browser.org
+
+
+You have everything you need now. Let's install this stuff.
+
+Create the /usr/share/docbook directory, cd into it and unpack the
+docbook-xml dtd archive there.
+
+Create the /usr/share/dsssl directory, cd into it and unpack the dsssl
+stylesheet archive in there. Now copy the lfs.dsl file you will find in
+the LFS-BOOK XML archive into /usr/share/dsssl/docbook/html
+
+The last step is installed OpenJade.
+
+In order for openjade to be able to convert the DocBook based documents
+into other formats, it needs to know where the DocBook DTD related
+files are located. This is sort of the DocBook equivalent for the $PATH
+variable. You have two ways of doing this:
+
+1) You can set the $SGML_CATALOG_FILES variable and include the full
+paths to the catalog files in it
+ or
+2) You can hard-code the paths into the openjade binary.
+
+If you choose option 1, add the following to your bash configuration
+file, system wide profile or wherever you wish to include it:
+
+export SGML_CATALOG_FILES=/usr/share/docbook.cat:/usr/share/dsssl/docbook/catalog:/usr/share/dsssl/openjade/catalog
+
+Followed by installing openjade by running:
+ ./configure --prefix=/usr
+ make
+ make install
+ cp -av dsssl /usr/share/dsssl/openjade
+
+If you choose option 2, install OpenJade as follows:
+
+ ./configure --prefix=/usr \
+ > --enable-default-catalot=/usr/share/docbook.cat:/usr/share/dsssl/docbook/catalog:/usr/share/dsssl/openjade/catalog
+ make
+ make install
+ cp -av dsssl /usr/share/dsssl/openjade
+
+And you don't have to worry about the $SGML_CATALOG_FILES variable in
+this case.
+
+
+You're all set to convert XML to HTML (among a few other formats
+supported by openjade) now. If you want to convert to PS and PDF as
+well, install the following two packages.
+
+FLTK (you can skip this one if you don't want the X front-end):
+ ./configure --prefix=/usr
+ make
+ make install
+
+HTMLDOC:
+Edit the Makefile.in file and find these lines:
+
+install:
+ $(MAKE) all
+ for dir in $(INSTALLDIRS); do\
+ echo Installing in $$dir...;\
+ (cd $$dir; $(MAKE) -$(MAKEFLAGS) clean) || break;\
+ done
+
+Change this into:
+
+install:
+ $(MAKE) all
+ for dir in $(INSTALLDIRS); do\
+ echo Installing in $$dir...;\
+ (cd $$dir; $(MAKE) -$(MAKEFLAGS) install) || break;\
+ done
+
+This will fix that little bug that causes 'make install' to be
+identical to 'make clean'. Now continue with:
+
+ ./configure --prefix=/usr
+ make
+ make install
+
+
+
+The last package is Lynx which will be used for the HTML to TXT
+conversion. Install it by running:
+
+ ./configure --prefix=/usr
+ make
+ make install
+
+There, all set now. Go back to the README file for some examples how to
+convert this XML to the various other formats.
+