Overview

What is it ?

Ant4docbook is an ant task for processing docbook xml documents.
see : http://ant.apache.org/
see : http://www.docbook.org/

Why ?

Why another docbook processing tool when there are already many ones ? ( docbook tools )
Even if these tools do their jobs as they have to do, it is sometimes quiet difficult to install/use/customize them.
Ant4docbook aims to be :

  • easy to use.
  • easy to install.
    Ant4docbook package contains all tools and dependencies
  • easy to customize
  • cross platform

The Latest Version

Details of the latest version can be found on the Sourceforge Project web site https://sourceforge.net/projects/ant4docbook/

Documentation

News

  • [2011-09-25] ant4docbook V0.3 released.

    Features : pdf parameters

  • [2011-03-27] ant4docbook V0.2 released.

    Features : html and pdf processing
    Bugs :
    [BUG#004] Xslt processing failed with default JRE (thanks to Susanne Wunsch)
    [BUG#003] fo processing failure, due to windows directory permissions
    [BUG#002] xinclude failure on windows
    [BUG#001] java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jdom/Document