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Publishing with XML - Herong's Tutorial Examples

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Title: Publishing with XML - Herong's Tutorial Examples

Author: Dr. Herong Yang - Contact by email via herong_yang@yahoo.com.

Category: COMPUTERS / General

Version/Edition: v4.02, 2021

Number of pages in PDF format: 45

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. Updated in 2021 (Version v4.02) with minor changes.

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

Copyright:

This book is under Copyright Copyright © 2021 Dr. Herong Yang. All rights reserved.
Material in this book may not be published, broadcasted, rewritten or redistributed in any form.
Code examples are provided as-is, with no warranty of any kind.

Revision history:

Version 4.02, 2021. 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.

Web version: http://www.herongyang.com/hyPub - Provides free sample chapters, latest updates and readers' comments.

PDF/ePUB version: http://www.herongyang.com/hyPub/PDF-Full-Version.html - Provides information on how to obtain the full version of this book in PDF, ePUB, or other format.

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

Full Version in PDF/ePUB