Re: [xsl] ePub XSLT out there?

[Martynas Jusevicius <martynas.jusevicius@xxxxxxxxx>]

EXPath is doing a pretty good job regarding to zipping.

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Lech Rzedzicki <xchaotic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 1. Content
> I guess it'd be pretty hard to write anyXML to epub, so just like
> others have pointed out you should think of what XML schema are you
> coming from.
> ePub spec allows two main formats for storing the text markup: XHTML
> and Daisy (hardly anyone uses that anyway but it's very similar to
> HTML anyway), so for actual content conversion you should think about
> converting from your XML to XHTML and this is a subject that has been
> covered many times before.
> 2. Metadata
> The only two other parts of epub container where XSL initially seems
> like it might been handy is NCX and OPF (table of content and
> manifest/metadata file).
> The problem is you need to be able to access files, MIMETYPEs, check
> if the files are less than 300KB (to conform with Sony's hardware
> limitations not epub spec) etc and finally zip the whole thing up. in
> general low level routines are much easier done in other languages
> such as Ruby or Perl and a lot of what I just described is simply
> impossible to do in pure XSL.