parameters, catalogs, docbook, etc

Hi, I'm a relative xml newbie, and I'm trying to use docbook to generate .epub archives (docbook 1.7.4 has a xsl transform for that). I find I am lost in a lot of things having to do with the basic environment/customization. When you configure a transformation, you can edit the parameters by clicking parameters. I understand what is going on here. But I can't understand where the customizations you are making to parameters are written down. Suppose I bring my docbook files to a new computer without Oxygen and I must use the same customizations.Where does Oxygen store these values--in a text file somewhere? When you configure a custom transformation, where is the configuration information stored after you are done? Is there a path for project customizations as opposed to global customizations? Speaking of good transforms, it would be nice to setup a transform to epub format for docbook files (especially since the xsl file is basically done). Thanks. rj -- Robert Nagle 12777 Ashford Point Dr #1417 Houston, Texas 77082 713 893 3424 htpt://www.robertnagle.info

Hello, If you store the scenarios at global level (the default setting) they are stored in the user preferences in a subfolder of the user home folder. If you want to share the scenario with other users you should store it at project level or at document type level. If you work on a common project that you load in the Project view and you share with other users you can store the transformation scenarios at project level with the radio button Project Scenarios in the dialog Configure Transformation Scenario that is opened by the action with the same name on the toolbar Transformation and on the menu Document -> Transformation. In this case you share the .xpr project file with other users. You have a DocBook XML document so it matches one of the two predefined DocBook document types (DocBook 4 and DocBook 5). If you store the scenario at document type level it is saved in the .framework file of that document type so you have to share the .framework file with other users, that is frameworks/docbook/docbook4.framework or frameworks/docbook/docbook5.framework. The epub transformation needs a zip application and a Ruby runtime so the Oxygen installer should include them which means a bigger installer file. We will consider a default epub transformation for a future version. Regards, Sorin Robert Nagle wrote:
Hi, I'm a relative xml newbie, and I'm trying to use docbook to generate .epub archives (docbook 1.7.4 has a xsl transform for that).
I find I am lost in a lot of things having to do with the basic environment/customization.
When you configure a transformation, you can edit the parameters by clicking parameters. I understand what is going on here.
But I can't understand where the customizations you are making to parameters are written down. Suppose I bring my docbook files to a new computer without Oxygen and I must use the same customizations.Where does Oxygen store these values--in a text file somewhere?
When you configure a custom transformation, where is the configuration information stored after you are done? Is there a path for project customizations as opposed to global customizations?
Speaking of good transforms, it would be nice to setup a transform to epub format for docbook files (especially since the xsl file is basically done).
Thanks.
rj
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Robert Nagle
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Sorin Ristache