[Legacy] DocBook to rtf task

2018, Jan 01 One min read

[OBSOLETE] RTF output is currently unmaintained and lacks many features compared to other output formats. see: Apache FOP Output Formats

Description

Process docbook to rtf within ant script, using DocBook XSL stylesheets and XSL Formatting Objects.

DocBook to rtf processing

By default, ant4docbook embed apache fop to process rtf files. You may use your favorite fo processor as an external tool by setting ant4docbook.fop property.

For example :

<project name="docbook-ant-task-to-rtf">
<property name="ant4docbook.fop" value="/path/to/apache-fop/fop" />
[...]
</project>

Rtf task parameters

Attribute	Description	Value	Required
file	docbook file		yes
tofile	output file	<file name>.rtf	yes
parameters	output parameters		no

Examples


<project name="docbook-ant-task-to-rtf" default="docbook-to-rtf"> 

	<taskdef name="dbk" 
		classname="net.sourceforge.ant4docbook.taskdefs.DocbookTask" 
		classpath="PATH/TO/ant4docbook.jar"/> 

	<target name="docbook-to-rtf"> 
		<dbk file="docbook.xml" tofile="generated-rtf-file.rtf" /> 
	</target> 

</project>