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<tool name="docbook">
<summary>
<para>This tool tries to make working with Docbook in SCons a little easier.
It provides several toolchains for creating different output formats,
like HTML or PDF. Contained in the package is
a distribution of the Docbook XSL stylesheets as of version 1.76.1.
As long as you don't specify your own stylesheets for customization,
these official versions are picked as default...which should reduce
the inevitable setup hassles for you.
</para>
<para>Implicit dependencies to images and XIncludes are detected automatically
if you meet the HTML requirements. The additional
stylesheet <filename>utils/xmldepend.xsl</filename> by Paul DuBois is used for this purpose.
</para>
<para>Note, that there is no support for XML catalog resolving offered! This tool calls
the XSLT processors and PDF renderers with the stylesheets you specified, that's it.
The rest lies in your hands and you still have to know what you're doing when
resolving names via a catalog.
</para>
<para>For activating the tool "docbook", you have to add its name to the Environment constructor,
like this
</para>
<screen>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
</screen>
<para>On its startup, the &t-docbook; tool tries to find a required <literal>xsltproc</literal> processor, and
a PDF renderer, e.g. <application>fop</application>. So make sure that these are added to your system's environment
<envar>PATH</envar> and can be called directly without specifying their full path.
</para>
<para>For the most basic processing of Docbook to HTML, you need to have installed
</para>
<itemizedlist><listitem><para>the Python <systemitem>lxml</systemitem>
binding to <systemitem>libxml2</systemitem>, or</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>a standalone XSLT processor, currently detected are <application>xsltproc</application>, <application>saxon</application>, <application>saxon-xslt</application>
and <application>xalan</application>.
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Rendering to PDF requires you to have one of the applications
<application>fop</application> or <application>xep</application> installed.
</para>

<para>Creating a HTML or PDF document is very simple and straightforward. Say
</para>
<screen>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookHtml('manual.html', 'manual.xml')
env.DocbookPdf('manual.pdf', 'manual.xml')
</screen>
<para>to get both outputs from your XML source <filename>manual.xml</filename>. As a shortcut, you can
give the stem of the filenames alone, like this:
</para>
<screen>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookHtml('manual')
env.DocbookPdf('manual')
</screen>
<para>and get the same result. Target and source lists are also supported:
</para>
<screen>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookHtml(['manual.html','reference.html'], ['manual.xml','reference.xml'])
</screen>
<para>or even
</para>
<screen>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookHtml(['manual','reference'])
</screen>
<important><para>Whenever you leave out the list of sources, you may not specify a file extension! The
Tool uses the given names as file stems, and adds the suffixes for target and source files
accordingly.
</para>
</important>
<para>The rules given above are valid for the Builders &b-link-DocbookHtml;,
&b-link-DocbookPdf;, &b-link-DocbookEpub;, &b-link-DocbookSlidesPdf; and &b-link-DocbookXInclude;. For the
&b-link-DocbookMan; transformation you
can specify a target name, but the actual output names are automatically
set from the <literal>refname</literal> entries in your XML source.
</para>

<para>The Builders &b-link-DocbookHtmlChunked;, &b-link-DocbookHtmlhelp; and
&b-link-DocbookSlidesHtml; are special, in that:
</para>
<orderedlist><listitem><para>they create a large set of files, where the exact names and their number depend
on the content of the source file, and
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>the main target is always named <filename>index.html</filename>, i.e. the output name for the
XSL transformation is not picked up by the stylesheets.
</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>As a result, there is simply no use in specifying a target HTML name.
So the basic syntax for these builders is always:
</para>
<screen>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookHtmlhelp('manual')
</screen>

<para>If you want to use a specific XSL file, you can set the
additional <parameter>xsl</parameter> parameter to your
Builder call as follows:
</para>
<screen>env.DocbookHtml('other.html', 'manual.xml', xsl='html.xsl')
</screen>
<para>Since this may get tedious if you always use the same local naming for your customized XSL files,
e.g. <filename>html.xsl</filename> for HTML and <filename>pdf.xsl</filename> for PDF output, a set of
variables for setting the default XSL name is provided. These are:
</para>
<screen>DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTML
DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTMLCHUNKED
DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTMLHELP
DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_PDF
DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_EPUB
DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_MAN
DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_SLIDESPDF
DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_SLIDESHTML
</screen>
<para>and you can set them when constructing your environment:
</para>
<screen>
env = Environment(
    tools=['docbook'],
    DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTML='html.xsl',
    DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_PDF='pdf.xsl',
)
env.DocbookHtml('manual')  # now uses html.xsl
</screen>
</summary>
<sets>
<item>DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTML</item>
<item>DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTMLCHUNKED</item>
<item>DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTMLHELP</item>
<item>DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_PDF</item>
<item>DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_EPUB</item>
<item>DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_MAN</item>
<item>DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_SLIDESPDF</item>
<item>DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_SLIDESHTML</item>
<item>DOCBOOK_XSLTPROC</item>
<item>DOCBOOK_XMLLINT</item>
<item>DOCBOOK_FOP</item>
<item>DOCBOOK_XSLTPROCFLAGS</item>
<item>DOCBOOK_XMLLINTFLAGS</item>
<item>DOCBOOK_FOPFLAGS</item>
<item>DOCBOOK_XSLTPROCPARAMS</item>
<item>DOCBOOK_XSLTPROCCOM</item>
<item>DOCBOOK_XMLLINTCOM</item>
<item>DOCBOOK_FOPCOM</item>
</sets>
<uses>
<item>DOCBOOK_XSLTPROCCOMSTR</item>
<item>DOCBOOK_XMLLINTCOMSTR</item>
<item>DOCBOOK_FOPCOMSTR</item>
</uses>
</tool>


<cvar name="DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTML">
<summary>
<para>
The default XSLT file for the &b-link-DocbookHtml; builder within the
current environment, if no other XSLT gets specified via keyword.
</para>
</summary>
</cvar>


<cvar name="DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTMLCHUNKED">
<summary>
<para>
The default XSLT file for the &b-link-DocbookHtmlChunked; builder within the
current environment, if no other XSLT gets specified via keyword.
</para>
</summary>
</cvar>

<cvar name="DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_HTMLHELP">
<summary>
<para>
The default XSLT file for the &b-link-DocbookHtmlhelp; builder within the
current environment, if no other XSLT gets specified via keyword.
</para>
</summary>
</cvar>

<cvar name="DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_PDF">
<summary>
<para>
The default XSLT file for the &b-link-DocbookPdf; builder within the
current environment, if no other XSLT gets specified via keyword.
</para>
</summary>
</cvar>

<cvar name="DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_EPUB">
<summary>
<para>
The default XSLT file for the &b-link-DocbookEpub; builder within the
current environment, if no other XSLT gets specified via keyword.
</para>
</summary>
</cvar>

<cvar name="DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_MAN">
<summary>
<para>
The default XSLT file for the &b-link-DocbookMan; builder within the
current environment, if no other XSLT gets specified via keyword.
</para>
</summary>
</cvar>

<cvar name="DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_SLIDESPDF">
<summary>
<para>
The default XSLT file for the &b-link-DocbookSlidesPdf; builder within the
current environment, if no other XSLT gets specified via keyword.
</para>
</summary>
</cvar>

<cvar name="DOCBOOK_DEFAULT_XSL_SLIDESHTML">
<summary>
<para>
The default XSLT file for the &b-link-DocbookSlidesHtml; builder within the
current environment, if no other XSLT gets specified via keyword.
</para>
</summary>
</cvar>

<cvar name="DOCBOOK_XSLTPROC">
<summary>
<para>
The path to the external executable <literal>xsltproc</literal>
(or <literal>saxon</literal>, <literal>xalan</literal>), if one of them
is installed.
Note, that this is only used as last fallback for XSL transformations, if
no lxml Python binding can be imported in the current system.
</para>
</summary>
</cvar>

<cvar name="DOCBOOK_XMLLINT">
<summary>
<para>
The path to the external executable <literal>xmllint</literal>, if it's installed.
Note, that this is only used as last fallback for resolving
XIncludes, if no lxml Python binding can be imported
in the current system.
</para>
</summary>
</cvar>

<cvar name="DOCBOOK_FOP">
<summary>
<para>
The path to the PDF renderer <literal>fop</literal> or <literal>xep</literal>,
if one of them is installed (<literal>fop</literal> gets checked first).
</para>
</summary>
</cvar>

<cvar name="DOCBOOK_XSLTPROCFLAGS">
<summary>
<para>
Additonal command-line flags for the external executable
<literal>xsltproc</literal> (or <literal>saxon</literal>,
<literal>xalan</literal>).
</para>
</summary>
</cvar>

<cvar name="DOCBOOK_XMLLINTFLAGS">
<summary>
<para>
Additonal command-line flags for the external executable
<literal>xmllint</literal>.
</para>
</summary>
</cvar>

<cvar name="DOCBOOK_FOPFLAGS">
<summary>
<para>
Additonal command-line flags for the
PDF renderer <literal>fop</literal> or <literal>xep</literal>.
</para>
</summary>
</cvar>

<cvar name="DOCBOOK_XSLTPROCPARAMS">
<summary>
<para>
Additonal parameters that are not intended for the XSLT processor executable, but
the XSL processing itself. By default, they get appended at the end of the command line
for <literal>saxon</literal> and <literal>saxon-xslt</literal>, respectively.
</para>
</summary>
</cvar>

<cvar name="DOCBOOK_XSLTPROCCOM">
<summary>
<para>
The full command-line for the external executable
<literal>xsltproc</literal> (or <literal>saxon</literal>,
<literal>xalan</literal>).
</para>
</summary>
</cvar>

<cvar name="DOCBOOK_XMLLINTCOM">
<summary>
<para>
The full command-line for the external executable
<literal>xmllint</literal>.
</para>
</summary>
</cvar>

<cvar name="DOCBOOK_FOPCOM">
<summary>
<para>
The full command-line for the
PDF renderer <literal>fop</literal> or <literal>xep</literal>.
</para>
</summary>
</cvar>

<cvar name="DOCBOOK_XSLTPROCCOMSTR">
<summary>
<para>
The string displayed when <literal>xsltproc</literal> is used to transform
an XML file via a given XSLT stylesheet.
</para>
</summary>
</cvar>

<cvar name="DOCBOOK_XMLLINTCOMSTR">
<summary>
<para>
The string displayed when <literal>xmllint</literal> is used to resolve
XIncludes for a given XML file.
</para>
</summary>
</cvar>

<cvar name="DOCBOOK_FOPCOMSTR">
<summary>
<para>
The string displayed when a renderer like <literal>fop</literal> or
<literal>xep</literal> is used to create PDF output from an XML file.
</para>
</summary>
</cvar>

<builder name="DocbookHtml">
<summary>
<para>
A pseudo-Builder, providing a Docbook toolchain for HTML output.
</para>
<example_commands>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookHtml('manual.html', 'manual.xml')
</example_commands>
<para>
or simply
</para>
<example_commands>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookHtml('manual')
</example_commands>
</summary>
</builder>

<builder name="DocbookHtmlChunked">
<summary>
<para>
A pseudo-Builder providing a Docbook toolchain for chunked HTML output.
It supports the <parameter>base.dir</parameter> parameter. The
<filename>chunkfast.xsl</filename> file (requires &quot;EXSLT&quot;) is used as the
default stylesheet. Basic syntax:
</para>

<example_commands>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookHtmlChunked('manual')
</example_commands>
<para>
where <filename>manual.xml</filename> is the input file.
</para>
<para>If you use the <parameter>root.filename</parameter>
parameter in your own stylesheets you have to specify the new target name.
This ensures that the dependencies get correct, especially for the cleanup via <quote><literal>scons -c</literal></quote>:
</para>
<screen>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookHtmlChunked('mymanual.html', 'manual', xsl='htmlchunk.xsl')
</screen>
<para>Some basic support for the <parameter>base.dir</parameter> parameter
is provided.  You can add the <parameter>base_dir</parameter> keyword to
your Builder call, and the given prefix gets prepended to all the
created filenames:
</para>
<screen>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookHtmlChunked('manual', xsl='htmlchunk.xsl', base_dir='output/')
</screen>
<para>Make sure that you don't forget the trailing slash for the base folder, else
your files get renamed only!
</para>
</summary>
</builder>

<builder name="DocbookHtmlhelp">
<summary>
<para>
A pseudo-Builder, providing a Docbook toolchain for HTMLHELP output.
Its basic syntax is:
</para>

<example_commands>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookHtmlhelp('manual')
</example_commands>
<para>
where <filename>manual.xml</filename> is the input file.
</para>

<para>If you use the <parameter>root.filename</parameter>
parameter in your own stylesheets you have to specify the new target name.
This ensures that the dependencies get correct, especially for the cleanup via <quote><userinput>scons -c</userinput></quote>:
</para>
<screen>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookHtmlhelp('mymanual.html', 'manual', xsl='htmlhelp.xsl')
</screen>
<para>Some basic support for the <parameter>base.dir</parameter> parameter
is provided. You can add the <parameter>base_dir</parameter> keyword to
your Builder call, and the given prefix gets prepended to all the
created filenames:
</para>
<screen>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookHtmlhelp('manual', xsl='htmlhelp.xsl', base_dir='output/')
</screen>
<para>Make sure that you don't forget the trailing slash for the base folder, else
your files get renamed only!
</para>

</summary>
</builder>

<builder name="DocbookPdf">
<summary>
<para>
A pseudo-Builder, providing a Docbook toolchain for PDF output.
</para>

<example_commands>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookPdf('manual.pdf', 'manual.xml')
</example_commands>

<para>
or simply
</para>

<example_commands>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookPdf('manual')
</example_commands>

</summary>
</builder>

<builder name="DocbookEpub">
<summary>
<para>
A pseudo-Builder, providing a Docbook toolchain for EPUB output.
</para>

<example_commands>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookEpub('manual.epub', 'manual.xml')
</example_commands>

<para>
or simply
</para>

<example_commands>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookEpub('manual')
</example_commands>

</summary>
</builder>

<builder name="DocbookMan">
<summary>
<para>
A pseudo-Builder, providing a Docbook toolchain for Man page output.
Its basic syntax is:
</para>

<example_commands>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookMan('manual')
</example_commands>
<para>
where <filename>manual.xml</filename> is the input file. Note, that
you can specify a target name, but the actual output names are automatically
set from the <literal>refname</literal> entries in your XML source.
</para>
</summary>
</builder>

<builder name="DocbookSlidesPdf">
<summary>
<para>
A pseudo-Builder, providing a Docbook toolchain for PDF slides output.
</para>

<example_commands>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookSlidesPdf('manual.pdf', 'manual.xml')
</example_commands>

<para>
or simply
</para>

<example_commands>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookSlidesPdf('manual')
</example_commands>
</summary>
</builder>

<builder name="DocbookSlidesHtml">
<summary>
<para>
A pseudo-Builder, providing a Docbook toolchain for HTML slides output.
</para>

<example_commands>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookSlidesHtml('manual')
</example_commands>

<para>If you use the <parameter>titlefoil.html</parameter> parameter in
your own stylesheets you have to give the new target name. This ensures
that the dependencies get correct, especially for the cleanup via
<quote><userinput>scons -c</userinput></quote>:
</para>
<screen>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookSlidesHtml('mymanual.html','manual', xsl='slideshtml.xsl')
</screen>

<para>Some basic support for the <parameter>base.dir</parameter> parameter
is provided. You
can add the <parameter>base_dir</parameter> keyword to your Builder
call, and the given prefix gets prepended to all the created filenames:
</para>
<screen>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookSlidesHtml('manual', xsl='slideshtml.xsl', base_dir='output/')
</screen>
<para>Make sure that you don't forget the trailing slash for the base folder, else
your files get renamed only!
</para>

</summary>
</builder>

<builder name="DocbookXInclude">
<summary>
<para>
A pseudo-Builder, for resolving XIncludes in a separate processing step.
</para>

<example_commands>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookXInclude('manual_xincluded.xml', 'manual.xml')
</example_commands>
</summary>
</builder>

<builder name="DocbookXslt">
<summary>
<para>
A pseudo-Builder, applying a given XSL transformation to the input file.
</para>

<example_commands>env = Environment(tools=['docbook'])
env.DocbookXslt('manual_transformed.xml', 'manual.xml', xsl='transform.xslt')
</example_commands>

<para>Note, that this builder requires the <parameter>xsl</parameter> parameter
to be set.
</para>
</summary>
</builder>

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