Re: [xsl] XSLT Programmer's Reference 4th edition

["Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:56 AM
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [xsl] XSLT Programmer's Reference 4th edition

> On 10/04/2008, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > The answer from the publisher is yes (from wiley.com), there
> >  > will be a PDF available, but it may take 6-8 weeks after the
> >  > printed edition is available.
> >
> >  >So the next question is: will the PDF be fully hyperlinked with
> >  links from the TOC to chapters/sections/tables/figures, hyperlinked
> >  to external web sites, and hyperlinked from the index to items on
> >  the page?
> >
> >
> > Almost certainly not, unfortunately. Wiley's production processes have 
> > yet
> >  to enter the XML age.
>
> I worked for a large publisher a while back and one jobs I did was to
> transform XML that was generated by (apparently) reverse engineering
> whatever file they send to the printers.
>
> The XML was pretty basic but I was able to upconvert a lot of it into
> useful hyperlinks.  One problem I remember was where words were broken
> across a line and a hyphen was added, for example on the printed page
> you would have:
>
> blah blah blah fundam-
> ental.
>
> In the XML this would just be "fundam-ental"...
>
> Anyway, perhaps this sort of XML would be available from Wiley?
>
>
> --
> Andrew Welch
> http://andrewjwelch.com
> Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/

Content for Wiley/Wrox is created in Word templates, I used Word 2007 for 
the last batch I wrote, so in theory it could be converted from Word's 
tortuous XML into another format.

Joe Fawcett
http://joe.fawcett.name