Re: [xsl] ePub XSLT out there?

["steve.majewski@xxxxxxxxx" <steve.majewski@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 4, 2010, at 4:00 AM, Jacobus Reyneke wrote:

> Good day,
>
> I just wandered if anyone has already gone though the trouble of  
> creating a basic XSL template to generate the minimum ePub files and  
> structure. If not, I will try and put something together on my own.  
> I'm far from an expert in XSLT and creating directory structures,  
> indexes etc. is something I have not yet done with XSLT, but I'm  
> sure with Saxon and a bit of fiddling around it should be do-able.
>
> Any insights from anyone who has ventured down this path before will  
> be helpful. I found something similar in TEI toolsets, but it's  
> complex and a bit overwhelming. I think a template that creates just  
> the minimum ePub structure would be well received by a lot of people.


I was going to suggest looking at Calibre : <http://calibre-ebook.com/>,
as I thought it was built on Python+xslt, but looking in the package,
I see only a handful of .xsl files, so I don't believe xslt is driving
most of the conversions. Perhaps they parse everything into an internal
format and then serialize into different output formats ?


-- Steve Majewski / UVA Alderman Library