I edited section1.xml and added <programlisting>test</programlisting> inside para. The transformation works fine. Hmm.. seems to have been a DOCTYPE declaration error. I was using the 4.2 DTD from oasis.org and switching to the docbook.org one made the problem go away. That was the only difference ...

Hey gang, I've got a weird thing happening with oXygen and I can't figure out what's going on. I have a technical manual I'm writing in DocBook, with each chapter and appendix as a separate XML file, which are all grouped together in a master XML file using <xi:include> tags. If I produce HTML from ...

That was it, exactly. I installed the JAI and it worked. Thanks!

Hi guys, Having a small problem, which is probably due to my newness to DocBook and oXygen: I've created a working book which works great when I chunk it out to HTML and mostly great when I export to PDF. The only problem is that when I export to PDF, I lose the images. Any assistance on settings I'...

Thanks George. I figured it had to be something like that, but I didn't really have the time for all the necessary testing. I'm now trying to convince the boss to replace our manuals with DocBooks, so I have a different battle on my hands.

Thanks for that link -- very useful! I seem to have fixed the strange character bug by using the HTML XSL instead of the XHTML one. I'll look into that one more a little later.

Two more (real newbie) questions:

1. When I transform my XML, I get a whole bunch of  characters in the HTML output and I can't understand why.

2. I have given my chapters id= attributes but the individual chapter HTML files are still being named ch01.html, etc.

Thanks Dan. That's just what I was looking for.

Hi guys, I've been meaning to get into learning about DocBook for a while and I finally have a project that requires it. However, I'm finding it quite tough starting out. All the options are quite overwhelming, and I seem to be getting lost a lot. Does anyone know of a good beginners tutorial for st...