DocBook Slides

[honyk]

Hello,

it would be nice to ship also DocBook Slides DTD as one of Oxygen frameworks together with a decent CSS style for visual editing. I know this schema is not standardized, it is just try. Btw, XSLT styles are already shipped

Regards,

Jan

[george]

Dear Jan,

I tried to use the DocBook slides for my XML Prague presentation this year but I gave up. I posted two bugs on the schemas on the DocBook issue tracker together with patches but I did not receive any notification that the patches were committed.
The DocBook stylesheets contain some code to process slides but that does not work correctly, I remember that I had to modify the stylesheets to be able to process a document correctly.
To conclude I think that slides need a little more work before we can ship them as a framework in oXygen. Also, for a presentation the author wants to focus also on how the information is presented and in general it is a one time task so DocBook is not necessarily the best candidate for that.

Best Regards,
George