DocBook Plugin for sbt

This project is a plugin for sbt 0.12.1 (and above) providing tasks to transform DocBook XML files to various output formats like HTML, PDF, EPUB, and others.

The main advantage of this plugin is that you don't need to have the DocBook stylesheets installed nor do you need any other tools to create advanced formats like PDF. It all runs out of the box!

At the moment there isn't a built version available in repos. So before you can use it you'll have to build run

sbt publish-local

on it.

Usage

1. Install sbt 0.12.1
2. Create a new directory for your project—e.g. /home/user/paper.
3. In this directory, create a subdirectory where all your DocBook XML files will go to. By default, the plugin automatically searches the subdirectory src/main/docbook.
4. In the same directory, create another subdirectory project/plugins. Create a file called build.sbt in this directory with the following contents:

  resolvers += ScalaToolsSnapshots
    
    libraryDependencies += "de.undercouch" %% "sbt-docbook-plugin" % "0.2-SNAPSHOT"

5. Write a DocBook file
6. Execute one of the sbt tasks below and have fun!

This files will be written to the target subdirectory.

You can also have a look at the examples directory to get a better starting point.

Tasks

Change to your project's root directory and run one of the following commands:

PDF

sbt pdf

Transforms DocBook XML files to PDF files

sbt xsl-fo

Transforms DocBook XML files to XSL-FO files. Note that you can also use the sbt pdf task to create PDF files directly.

HTML

sbt html

Transforms DocBook XML files to HTML files

sbt html-chunk

Transforms DocBook XML files to HTML files (each one chunked into multiple files)

sbt html-onechunk

Transforms DocBook XML files to HTML files (chunked output in single files)

XHTML

sbt xhtml
sbt xhtml-chunk
sbt xhtml-onechunk

Just like sbt html, sbt html-chunk and sbt html-onechunk but with XHTML 1.0 output.

sbt xhtml11
sbt xhtml11-chunk
sbt xhtml11-onechunk

Just like sbt html, sbt html-chunk and sbt html-onechunk but with stricter XHTML 1.1 output.

Open eBook

sbt epub

Transforms DocBook XML files to Open eBook (EPUB) files

Help formats

sbt html-help

Transforms DocBook XML files to HTML Help files

sbt java-help

Transforms DocBook XML files to JavaHelp files

sbt eclipse-help

Transforms DocBook XML files to Eclipse Help files

sbt manpage

Transforms DocBook XML files to man pages

Settings you may override

There are several settings you may override to customize document transformation. You can override settings by adding the new values to a file called build.sbt which you have to place in your project's root directory. Please do not mix that file up with the one under project/plugins!

Example:

// manually specify source files
mainDocBookFiles in DocBook := Seq(file("src/file1.xml"), file("src/file2.xml"))

// use local DocBook stylesheets
docBookStyleSheetBase in DocBook := "/home/user/docbook-xsl-1.76.1/"

// use a custom stylesheet for XSL-FO
docBookXslFoStyleSheet in DocBook := "/home/user/paper/mystylesheet.xsl"

Note that each setting must be written in its own line. Settings must be separated by a blank line.

mainDocBookFiles

A sequence of source files. If you don't overwrite this setting, the plugin will search the subdirectory src/main/docbook for .xml files. If it finds exactly one file, it uses this as source. If it finds multiple files, it uses the one called main.xml as the main source file. If you want to convert multiple main source files, you have to override this setting.

docBookSourceDirectory

The default directory the plugin should search for .xml files. By default this is src/main/docbook

docBookStyleSheetBase

A directory or a URI where the DocBook stylesheets are stored. By default, the plugin loads the stylesheets from the Internet dynamically. You can speed up document transformation significantly if you download the files to your local hard drive.

docBookXslFoStyleSheet
docBookHtmlStyleSheet
docBookHtmlChunkStyleSheet
docBookHtmlOnechunkStyleSheet
docBookXHtmlStyleSheet
docBookXHtmlChunkStyleSheet
docBookXHtmlOnechunkStyleSheet
docBookXHtml11StyleSheet
docBookXHtml11ChunkStyleSheet
docBookXHtml11OnechunkStyleSheet
docBookEpubStyleSheet
docBookHtmlHelpStyleSheet
docBookJavaHelpStyleSheet
docBookEclipseHelpStyleSheet
docBookManpageStyleSheet

Override these settings to specify custom stylesheets for the particular output formats.

fopConfigFile

The name of configuration file for Apache FOP. Use this file to configure PDF output. The plugin sets FOP's base URL to the project's root directory. Thus, you may use URLs relative to the project's root in the configuration file—e.g. to configure custom fonts.

TODO

The plugin is currently in a very early stage. There are plenty things to do. Here's a list of what I'd like to see the most:

• Support images and other external files correctly
• Create a toolchain for AsciiDoc -> DocBook -> FOP
• ...

Implementation details

This plugin automatically downloads all libraries needed to transform your DocBook files. It uses the SAXON XSLT processor, Apache FOP and Xerces.

License

The docbook plugin for sbt has been released under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License").

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.