Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 8.1

Chapter 51. Extensible Markup Language (XML)

docbook-xsl-1.79.1

Introduction to DocBook XSL Stylesheets

The DocBook XSL Stylesheets package contains XSL stylesheets. These are useful for performing transformations on XML DocBook files.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-8.1 platform.

Package Information

Additional Downloads

Optional documentation

DocBook XSL Stylesheets Dependencies

Recommended

libxml2-2.9.4

Optional

apache-ant-1.10.1 (to produce “webhelp” documents), libxslt-1.1.29 (or any other XSLT processor, to process Docbook documents), Python-2.7.13 or Python-3.6.2 (to use “extensions”), Ruby-2.4.1 (to utilize the “epub” stylesheets), Zip-3.0 (to produce “epub3” documents), and Saxon6 and Xerces2 Java (used with apache-ant-1.10.1 to produce “webhelp” documents)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/docbook-xsl

Installation of DocBook XSL Stylesheets

If you downloaded the optional documentation tarball, unpack it with the following command: 

tar -xf ../docbook-xsl-doc-1.79.1.tar.bz2 --strip-components=1

BLFS does not install the required packages to run the test suite and provide meaningful results.

Install DocBook XSL Stylesheets by running the following commands as the root user: 

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.79.1 &&

cp -v -R VERSION assembly common eclipse epub epub3 extensions fo        \
         highlighting html htmlhelp images javahelp lib manpages params  \
         profiling roundtrip slides template tests tools webhelp website \
         xhtml xhtml-1_1 xhtml5                                          \
    /usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.79.1 &&

ln -s VERSION /usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.79.1/VERSION.xsl &&

install -v -m644 -D README \
                    /usr/share/doc/docbook-xsl-1.79.1/README.txt &&
install -v -m644    RELEASE-NOTES* NEWS* \
                    /usr/share/doc/docbook-xsl-1.79.1

If you downloaded the optional documentation tarball, install the documentation by issuing the following command as the root user: 

cp -v -R doc/* /usr/share/doc/docbook-xsl-1.79.1

Configuring DocBook XSL Stylesheets

Config Files

/etc/xml/catalog

Configuration Information

Create (or append) and populate the XML catalog file using the following commands as the root user: 

if [ ! -d /etc/xml ]; then install -v -m755 -d /etc/xml; fi &&
if [ ! -f /etc/xml/catalog ]; then
    xmlcatalog --noout --create /etc/xml/catalog
fi &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteSystem" \
           "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.79.1" \
           "/usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.79.1" \
    /etc/xml/catalog &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteURI" \
           "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/1.79.1" \
           "/usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.79.1" \
    /etc/xml/catalog &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteSystem" \
           "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current" \
           "/usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.79.1" \
    /etc/xml/catalog &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteURI" \
           "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current" \
           "/usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.79.1" \
    /etc/xml/catalog

Occasionally, you may find the need to install other versions of the XSL stylesheets as some projects reference a specific version. One example is BLFS-6.0, which required the 1.67.2 version. In these instances you should install any other required version in its own versioned directory and create catalog entries as follows (substitute the desired version number for <version>): 

xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteSystem" \
           "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/<version>" \
           "/usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-<version>" \
    /etc/xml/catalog &&

xmlcatalog --noout --add "rewriteURI" \
           "http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/<version>" \
           "/usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-<version>" \
    /etc/xml/catalog

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /usr/share/xml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets-1.79.1 and /usr/share/doc/docbook-xsl-1.79.1

Last updated on 2017-08-18 12:42:43 -0700