Re: Converting DocBook to DOCX making use of named styles

Michele Z. wrote:
>
> I have tried your product and it appears to be doing what we need.
> I say 'appears' because I didn't manage to exercise all the features we
> need, most notably the Styles in Microsoft Word.
> The reason for this is that  we generate FO files from a  DocBook
> compliant XML using DocBook XSL at
> http://wiki.docbook.org/DocBookXslStylesheets

This is expected when you convert DocBook documents to DOCX.



>
> I read (most of) the detailed explanation provided at:
> http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/_distrib/doc/user/user_styles.html
> and it still appears to me (but I am no expert in these matters) that
> the FO file itself require a modification to have things like
>
> <fo:inline*xfc:user-style="Warning"*>
>
> included in it.

Yes, that's right. You have understood the issue.



>
> Do you happen to know if anybody already took the pain of
> modifying/enhancing the DocBook XSL files so that the generated FO can
> be processed with your product and user styles can be obtained?

Nobody did that, not even us, XMLmind. It would be a long, tedious and 
error prone task given the size and complexity of the DocBook XSL 
stylesheets.

I must add that given the way the DocBook XSL stylesheets are written 
(i.e. no systematic use of xsl:attribute-sets), I see no way to automate 
this process (i.e. use an XSLT to automatically generate a variant of 
the DocBook XSL stylesheets making use of xfc:user-style).

We know for sure that some of our customers use the xfc:user-style 
feature but they do so in their own, in-house, XSL stylesheets, which 
always happen to have moderate size and complexity.

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