Assemblies and Directories

[IsleofGough]

With DITA topics and a DITA bookmap, I can easily have topics in logical directories and create a pdf target that works.

I tried doing the same thing in a Docbook Assembly and encountered problems. I put the Docbook topics in various subdirectories which basically corresponded to chapter titles. If any of the Docbook topics had relative references to images, crossrefs, etc, these no longer worked when I made an assembly target, as it created a new "Untitiled.xml" file where the references and cross-references were no longer correct. Rather than just dumping all the docbook topics together in the same directory as the docbook assembly, is there a way of working so that the links don't get broken?

[Radu]

Hi,

I'm afraid we are not using DocBook much in our company and do not have a solution for this, Oxygen still comes with the DocBook XSLT 1.0 stylesheets.
Norman Walsh created a new project for DocBook publishing, maybe you should look into using it:
https://github.com/docbook/xslTNG
Also maybe you can ask around on the DocBook Users List, see what others are doing.

Regards,
Radu