Publishing Books Using XML Technologies

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Website URL: http://www.herongyang.com/hyPub

Title: Publishing Books Using XML Technologies

Author: Dr. Herong Yang

Category: XML/Publishing/Tools

Version/Edition: Version 4.01, 2007

Number of pages: 42

Short description: 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. hyPub allows you to manage your book source text in simple XML files, transform them later into well formatted and linked XHTML files and PDF files ready for publishing on Websites or printing.

Long description: 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. hyPub allows you to manage your book source text in simple XML files, transform them later into well formatted and linked XHTML files and PDF files ready for publishing on Websites or printing. Features of hyPub include: Dynamic value replacement in book source file; Table of contents and other links generation; XHTML page layouts with CSS supports; Auto generation of PDF version.

Keywords: Publication, Tool, XML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PDF, XSL, XSL-FO, FOP, hyPub

Cost/Price: Free

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Revision history:

• Version 4.01, 2007. Minor corrections.
• Version 4.00, 2007. Better source text file management and better generation processes.
• Version 3.00, 2006. Breaking pages into multiple parts.
• Version 2.00, 2004. Simple generation process with no page breaks.
• Version 1.00, 2002. First version.

Copyright:

• This book is under Copyright © 2002 - 2007 by Dr. Herong Yang. All rights reserved.
• Material in this book may not be published, broadcasted, rewritten or redistributed in any form.
• The example codes is provided as-is, with no warranty of any kind.

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

 Transforming Book Source Files with XSL Technology

 Designing Web Page Layouts with Tables

 Controlling Web Page Appearance with CSS

 Sharing HTML Codes with JavaScript Files

 Generating Web Pages with hyPub

 Formatting Printable Documents with XSL-FO

 Generating PDF Documents with hyPub

 Areas of Future Improvements

 References

 PDF Printing Version