On 27.09.22 09:12, Jürgen Purtz wrote:
Yeah, I think we'd have to convert all the supported versions to
make this palatable. If the conversion is sufficiently automated,
that might not be a big lift. (If it's *not* automated, I think
the change would never get off the ground even for HEAD, because
the docs are too much of a moving target.)
+1
The process is totally automated. There are general steps which work for every DocBook 4.x book. And there are Postgres-specific steps (doRealModifictions.sh) which looks for individual patterns per file. This is the critical part. Currently it's tested only with HEAD. My expectation is, that it should work also for translations to other languages because the patterns contain only elements and attributes, no text. But if they run against older versions it's likely that we need some changes or additional patterns. I'm willing to work on this if a) there is a consensus in the community that the work should go on and b) someone helps me to resolve the reported unacceptable runtime problem during PDF generation.
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J. Purtz
DocBook 5.2 is published [1] [2].
This mail contains a new version of the PostgreSQL migration scripts (DocBook 4.5 format to 5.2 format). They are developed for PG versions 13 up to 17. Please see README.md for details. The generated output looks good at first glance, but: a) I don't have an idea how to guarantee that it looks REALLY identical at ALL places. Everyone is invited to search differences. b) pdf (resp. 'fo') cannot be generated. It seems to be a performance issue - a small number of test-pages works well.
Concerning this issue I need help from someone with good xslt knowledge. c) On my laptop epub cannot be generated (for version 4.5 as well as for 5.2). dbtoepub is a ruby program.
Development and testing was done only at an Ubuntu 22.04 laptop. For those who want to see the results quickly, download [3] (converted sgml, html, and man files, 8MB) or [4] (plus postgres-full.xml, postgres.txt, html single page, 16 MB). The two files remain online for some days.
J. Purtz
[1]
https://www.oasis-open.org/2024/02/13/the-docbook-schema-version-5-2-oasis-standard-published/ [2]
https://github.com/docbook/docbook/releases/tag/5.2 [3]
https://purtz.de/sgml_17beta1.zip [4]
https://purtz.de/sgml_17beta1_huge.zip