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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
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Copyright The SCons Foundation
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-->
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<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
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<article>
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<title>The SCons Docbook tool</title>
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<articleinfo>
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<author>
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<surname>Dirk Baechle</surname>
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</author>
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<pubdate>2010-12-30</pubdate>
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</articleinfo>
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<section id="basics"><title>Basics</title>
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<para>This tool tries to make working with Docbook in SCons a little easier.
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It provides several toolchains for creating different output formats,
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like HTML or PDF. Contained in the package is
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a distribution of the Docbook XSL stylesheets as of version 1.76.1.
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As long as you don't specify your own stylesheets for customization (see <link linkend="stylesheet">Selecting stylesheet</link>),
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these official versions are picked as default...which should reduce
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the inevitable setup hassles for you.
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</para>
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<para>Implicit dependencies to images and XIncludes are detected automatically
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if you meet the HTML requirements (see <link linkend="requirements">Requirements</link>). The additional
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stylesheet <literal>utils/xmldepend.xsl</literal> by Paul DuBois is used for this purpose.
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</para>
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<para>Note, that there is no support for XML catalog resolving offered! This tool calls
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the XSLT processors and PDF renderers with the stylesheets you specified, that's it.
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The rest lies in your hands and you still have to know what you're doing when
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resolving names via a catalog.
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</para>
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<section id="install"><title>Install</title>
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<para>Installing it, requires you to copy (or, even better: checkout) the contents of the
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package's <literal>docbook</literal> folder to
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</para>
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<orderedlist><listitem><para><quote><literal>/path_to_your_project/site_scons/site_tools/docbook</literal></quote>, if you need the Docbook Tool in one project only, or
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para><quote><literal>~/.scons/site_scons/site_tools/docbook</literal></quote>, for a system-wide installation under your current login.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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<para>For more infos about this, please refer to
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</para>
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<itemizedlist><listitem><para>the SCons User's Guide, chap. 19.7 "Where to put your custom Builders and Tools" and
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para>the SCons Tools Wiki page at <ulink url="https://github.com/SCons/scons/wiki/ToolsIndex">http://github.com/SCons/scons/wiki/ToolsIndex</ulink>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</section>
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<section id="activation"><title>How to activate</title>
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<para>For activating the tool "docbook", you have to add its name to the Environment constructor,
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like this
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</para>
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<screen>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
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</screen>
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<para>On its startup, the Docbook tool tries to find a required <literal>xsltproc</literal> processor, and
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a PDF renderer, e.g. <literal>fop</literal>. So make sure that these are added to your system's environment
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<literal>PATH</literal> and can be called directly, without specifying their full path.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section id="requirements"><title>Requirements</title>
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<para>For the most basic processing of Docbook to HTML, you need to have installed
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</para>
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<itemizedlist><listitem><para>the Python <literal>lxml</literal> binding to <literal>libxml2</literal>, or
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para>the direct Python bindings for <literal>libxml2/libxslt</literal>, or
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para>a standalone XSLT processor, currently detected are <literal>xsltproc</literal>, <literal>saxon</literal>, <literal>saxon-xslt</literal>
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and <literal>xalan</literal>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Rendering to PDF requires you to have one of the applications <literal>fop</literal>, <literal>xep</literal> or <literal>jw</literal>
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installed.
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</para>
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</section>
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</section>
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<section id="process"><title>Processing documents</title>
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<para>Creating a HTML or PDF document is very simple and straightforward. Say
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</para>
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<screen>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
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env.DocbookHtml('manual.html', 'manual.xml')
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env.DocbookPdf('manual.pdf', 'manual.xml')
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</screen>
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<para>to get both outputs from your XML source <literal>manual.xml</literal>. As a shortcut, you can
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give the stem of the filenames alone, like this:
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</para>
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<screen>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
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env.DocbookHtml('manual')
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env.DocbookPdf('manual')
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</screen>
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<para>and get the same result. Target and source lists are also supported:
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</para>
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<screen>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
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env.DocbookHtml(['manual.html','reference.html'], ['manual.xml','reference.xml'])
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</screen>
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<para>or even
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</para>
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<screen>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
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env.DocbookHtml(['manual','reference'])
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</screen>
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<important><para>Whenever you leave out the list of sources, you may not specify a file extension! The
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Tool uses the given names as file stems, and adds the suffixes for target and source files
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accordingly.
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</para>
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</important>
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<para>The rules given above are valid for the Builders <literal>DocbookHtml</literal>, <literal>DocbookPdf</literal>,
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<literal>DocbookSlidePdf</literal> and <literal>DocbookXInclude</literal>. For the <literal>DocbookMan</literal> transformation you
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can specify a target name, but the actual output names are automatically set from
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the <literal>refname</literal> entries in your XML source.
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</para>
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<para>Please refer to <link linkend="chunked">the section Chunked output</link> for more infos about the other Builders.
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</para>
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</section>
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<section id="stylesheet"><title>Selecting your own stylesheet</title>
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<para>If you want to use a specific XSL file, you can set the additional <literal>xsl</literal> parameter to your
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Builder call as follows:
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</para>
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<screen>env.DocbookHtml('other.html', 'manual.xml', xsl='html.xsl')
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</screen>
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<para>Since this may get tedious if you always use the same local naming for your customized XSL files,
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e.g. <literal>html.xsl</literal> for HTML and <literal>pdf.xsl</literal> for PDF output, a set of variables for setting the
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default XSL name is provided. These are:
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</para>
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<screen>DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTML
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DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTMLCHUNKED
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DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTMLHELP
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DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_PDF
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DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_MAN
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DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_SLIDESPDF
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DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_SLIDESHTML
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</screen>
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<para>and you can set them when constructing your environment:
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</para>
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<screen>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'],
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DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTML='html.xsl',
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DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_PDF='pdf.xsl')
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env.DocbookHtml('manual') # now uses html.xsl
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</screen>
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</section>
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<section id="chunked"><title>Chunked output</title>
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<para>The Builders <literal>DocbookHtmlChunked</literal>, <literal>DocbookHtmlhelp</literal> and <literal>DocbookSlidesHtml</literal>
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are special, in that:
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</para>
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<orderedlist><listitem><para>they create a large set of files, where the exact names and their number depend
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on the content of the source file, and
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</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem><para>the main target is always named <literal>index.html</literal>, i.e. the output name for the
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XSL transformation is not picked up by the stylesheets.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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<para>As a result, there is simply no use in specifying a target HTML name.
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So the basic syntax for these builders is:
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</para>
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<screen>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
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env.DocbookHtmlhelp('manual')
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</screen>
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<para>Only if you use the <literal>root.filename</literal> (<literal>titlefoil.html</literal> for slides) parameter in
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your own stylesheets you have to give the new target name. This ensures that the
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dependencies get correct, especially for the cleanup via <quote><literal>scons -c</literal></quote>:
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</para>
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<screen>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
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env.DocbookHtmlhelp('mymanual.html','manual', xsl='htmlhelp.xsl')
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</screen>
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<para>Some basic support for the <literal>base.dir</literal> is added (this has not been properly tested
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with variant dirs, yet!). You can add the <literal>base_dir</literal> keyword to your Builder
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call, and the given prefix gets prepended to all the created filenames:
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</para>
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<screen>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
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env.DocbookHtmlhelp('manual', xsl='htmlhelp.xsl', base_dir='output/')
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</screen>
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<para>Make sure that you don't forget the trailing slash for the base folder, else
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your files get renamed only!
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</para>
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</section>
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<section id="builders"><title>All builders</title>
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<para>A simple list of all builders currently available:
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</para>
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<variablelist><varlistentry><term>DocbookHtml
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</term>
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<listitem><para>Single HTML file.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term>DocbookHtmlChunked
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</term>
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<listitem><para>Chunked HTML files, with support for the <literal>base.dir</literal> parameter. The <literal>chunkfast.xsl</literal>
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file (requires "EXSLT") is used as the default stylesheet.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term>DocbookHtmlhelp
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</term>
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<listitem><para>Htmlhelp files, with support for <literal>base.dir</literal>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term>DocbookPdf
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</term>
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<listitem><para>PDF output.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term>DocbookMan
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</term>
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<listitem><para>Man pages.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term>DocbookSlidesPdf
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</term>
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<listitem><para>Slides in PDF format.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term>DocbookSlidesHtml
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</term>
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<listitem><para>Slides in HTML format, with support for <literal>base.dir</literal>.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term>DocbookXInclude
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</term>
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<listitem><para>Can be used to resolve XIncludes in a preprocessing step.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</section>
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<section id="more"><title>Need more?</title>
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<para>This work is still in a very basic state and hasn't been tested well
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with things like variant dirs, yet. Unicode problems and poor performance
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with large input files may occur. There will definitely arise the need for
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adding features, or a variable. Let us know if you can think of a nice
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improvement or have worked on a bugfix/patch with success. Enter your issues at the
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Launchpad bug tracker for the Docbook Tool, or write to the User General Discussion
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list of SCons at <literal>scons-users@scons.org</literal>.
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</para>
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</section>
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</article>
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