Publishing Books Using XML Technologies
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Copyright © 2002 - 2007 by Dr. Herong Yang. All rights reserved.
This book describes some ideas of how to use XML technologies to help publishing your books on your own Websites. Those ideas are implemented into a publishing tool called hyPub, which is also presented in this book.
Table of Contents
About This Book Ideas on Publishing Books using XML Overview of hyPub - A Simple XML Publishing Tool Writing Book Contents in XHTML Source Files Book Source File Structure Variables Used in Book Source Files Inserting Anchors in Book Source Files Transforming Book Source Files with XSL Technology What Is XSL (eXtensible Style Language)? Introduction to XSL Templates? xalan - XSL Transformation Processing Engine How XSL Technology Is Used in hyPub? Designing Web Page Layouts with Tables Using "table" Elements for Page Layouts Border Layout for Web Pages Adding a Frame for the Center Area Adding Headers and Footers Controlling Web Page Appearance with CSS What Is CSS? Suggested CSS Definitions for Book Web Pages Assigning CSS Files to Web Pages Sharing HTML Codes with JavaScript Files What Is JavaScript? How JavaScript Is Used in hyPub? Generating Web Pages with hyPub Requirements on Web Page Files Web Page Files Generation Steps Web Page Generation with hyPub Perl Programs hyPub Sample Web Pages and Source Code Formatting Printable Documents with XSL-FO What Is XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects) Example of XSL-FO Document - hello.fo Installing Apache FOP - XSL-FO Processor Formatting XSL-FO Files to Text Files Using FOP Formatting XSL-FO Files to PDF Files Using FOP Formatting XML Files to PDF Files with XSLT Tranforming XML Files with XSLT Stylesheets Generating PDF Documents with hyPub Requirements on PDF Version PDF Documents Generation Steps PDF Document Generation with hyPub Perl Programs hyPub Sample PDF Documents and Source Code Areas of Future Improvements References PDF Printing Version
About This Book
Ideas on Publishing Books using XML
Overview of hyPub - A Simple XML Publishing Tool
Writing Book Contents in XHTML Source Files
Book Source File Structure
Variables Used in Book Source Files
Inserting Anchors in Book Source Files
Transforming Book Source Files with XSL Technology
What Is XSL (eXtensible Style Language)?
Introduction to XSL Templates?
xalan - XSL Transformation Processing Engine
How XSL Technology Is Used in hyPub?
Designing Web Page Layouts with Tables
Using "table" Elements for Page Layouts
Border Layout for Web Pages
Adding a Frame for the Center Area
Adding Headers and Footers
Controlling Web Page Appearance with CSS
What Is CSS?
Suggested CSS Definitions for Book Web Pages
Assigning CSS Files to Web Pages
Sharing HTML Codes with JavaScript Files
What Is JavaScript?
How JavaScript Is Used in hyPub?
Generating Web Pages with hyPub
Requirements on Web Page Files
Web Page Files Generation Steps
Web Page Generation with hyPub Perl Programs
hyPub Sample Web Pages and Source Code
Formatting Printable Documents with XSL-FO
What Is XSL-FO (XSL Formatting Objects)
Example of XSL-FO Document - hello.fo
Installing Apache FOP - XSL-FO Processor
Formatting XSL-FO Files to Text Files Using FOP
Formatting XSL-FO Files to PDF Files Using FOP
Formatting XML Files to PDF Files with XSLT
Tranforming XML Files with XSLT Stylesheets
Generating PDF Documents with hyPub
Requirements on PDF Version
PDF Documents Generation Steps
PDF Document Generation with hyPub Perl Programs
hyPub Sample PDF Documents and Source Code
Areas of Future Improvements
References
PDF Printing Version
Keywords: Publication, Tool, XML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PDF, XSL, XSL-FO, FOP, hyPub
