10. Customizing the XSLT style sheets used in the Convert Document submenu

In order to do this, you need to use a custom XSLT style sheet instead of the stock one. Of course, the custom XSLT style sheet includes the stock one, so you can concentrate on your customizations.

Once you have created your custom XSLT style sheet, you have to specify to XXE that it must use it instead on the stock one. This is done by the means of a system property having the proper name and value.

Copy one of the following template files depending on which configuration you want to customize and on which format you want to generate:

Configuration Name	Convert to	Procedure
DITA DITA Map DITA BookMap	XHTML multi-page	Copy xhtml.xsl to `custom/`.
	XHTML single page	Copy xhtml.xsl to `custom/`.
	HTML Help	Copy htmlhelp.xsl to `custom/`.
	Java Help	Copy javahelp.xsl to `custom/`.
	Eclipse Help	Copy eclipsehelp.xsl to `custom/`.
	Web Help	Copy webhelp.xsl to `custom/`.
	EPUB	Copy epub.xsl to `custom/`.
	RTF, WordprocessingML, OpenDocument, OOXML	Copy fo.xsl to `custom/`.
	PDF, PostScript	Copy fo.xsl to `custom/`.
DocBook 5.0, 5.1, 5.2^[a] DocBook Assembly 5.1, 5.2^[a]	HTML multi-page	Copy chunk.xsl to `custom/`.
	HTML single page	Copy html.xsl to `custom/`.
	HTML Help	Copy htmlhelp.xsl to `custom/`.
	Java Help	Copy javahelp.xsl to `custom/`.
	Eclipse Help	Copy eclipse.xsl to `custom/`.
	Web Help	Copy webhelp.xsl to `custom/`.
	EPUB	Copy epub.xsl to `custom/`.
	RTF, WordprocessingML, OpenDocument, OOXML	Copy fo.xsl to `custom/`.
	PDF, PostScript	Copy fo.xsl to `custom/`.
DocBook 4	HTML multi-page	Copy chunk.xsl to `custom/`.
	HTML single page	Copy html.xsl to `custom/`.
	HTML Help	Copy htmlhelp.xsl to `custom/`.
	Java Help	Copy javahelp.xsl to `custom/`.
	Eclipse Help	Copy eclipse.xsl to `custom/`.
	Web Help	Copy webhelp.xsl to `custom/`.
	EPUB	Copy epub.xsl to `custom/`.
	RTF, WordprocessingML, OpenDocument, OOXML	Copy fo.xsl to `custom/`.
	PDF, PostScript	Copy fo.xsl to `custom/`.
XHTML Strict XHTML Transitional XHTML 1.1 XHTML 5	RTF, WordprocessingML, OpenDocument, OOXML	Copy fo.xsl to `custom/`.
XHTML Strict XHTML Transitional XHTML 1.1 XHTML 5	PDF, PostScript	Copy fo.xsl to `custom/`.
^[a]DocBook 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 and DocBook Assembly 5.1, 5.2 documents are converted using the same set of XSL style sheets.

For example, DocBook 5 chunk.xsl looks like this:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
                version="1.0"
                exclude-result-prefixes="d">

  <xsl:import href="docbook5-config:xsl/html/chunk.xsl"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Edit this file using an XML or text editor and add one or more XSLT elements after the xsl:import element.

DocBook 4 html.xsl example: Use the UTF-8 encoding instead of default ISO-8859-1 when converting a DocBook 4 document to single page HTML^[6]:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="1.0">

  <xsl:import href="docbook-config:xsl/html/docbook.xsl"/>

  <xsl:output method="html" 
              encoding="UTF-8"
              indent="no" 
              saxon:character-representation="native;decimal"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

DocBook 4 fo.xsl example: add more information to the title page of book:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format"
                version="1.0">

<xsl:import href="docbook-config:xsl/fo/docbook.xsl"/>

<xsl:template match="bookinfo/author|info/author" mode="titlepage.mode">
  <fo:block>
    <xsl:call-template name="anchor"/>
    <xsl:call-template name="person.name"/>
    <xsl:if test="affiliation/orgname">
      <fo:block>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="affiliation/orgname"
                             mode="titlepage.mode"/>
      </fo:block>
    </xsl:if>
    <xsl:if test="email|affiliation/address/email">
      <fo:block>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="(email|affiliation/address/email)[1]"/>
      </fo:block>
    </xsl:if>
  </fo:block>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Add one of the following property configuration element to your custom .xxe file:

Configuration Name	Convert to	Property Configuration Element
DITA DITA Map DITA BookMap	XHTML multi-page	<property name="dita.toXHTML.transform" url="true">xhtml.xsl</property>
	XHTML single page	<property name="dita.toXHTML1.transform" url="true">xhtml.xsl</property>
	HTML Help	<property name="dita.toHTMLHelp.transform" url="true">htmlhelp.xsl</property>
	Eclipse Help	<property name="dita.toEclipseHelp.transform" url="true">eclipsehelp.xsl</property>
	Web Help	<property name="dita.toWebHelp.transform" url="true">webhelp.xsl</property>
	EPUB	<property name="dita.toEPUB.transform" url="true">epub.xsl</property>
	RTF, WordprocessingML, OpenDocument, OOXML	<property name="dita.toRTF.transform" url="true">fo.xsl</property>
	PDF, PostScript	<property name="dita.toPS.transform" url="true">fo.xsl</property>
DocBook Assembly 5.1 and 5.2	HTML multi-page	<property name="asm.toHTML.transform" url="true">chunk.xsl</property>
	HTML single page	<property name="asm.toHTML1.transform" url="true">html.xsl</property>
	HTML Help	<property name="asm.toHTMLHelp.transform" url="true">htmlhelp.xsl</property>
	Eclipse Help	<property name="asm.toEclipseHelp.transform" url="true">eclipse.xsl</property>
	Web Help	<property name="asm.toWebHelp.transform" url="true">webhelp.xsl</property>
	EPUB	<property name="asm.toEpub.transform" url="true">epub.xsl</property>
	RTF, WordprocessingML, OpenDocument, OOXML	<property name="asm.toRTF.transform" url="true">fo.xsl</property>
	PDF, PostScript	<property name="asm.toPS.transform" url="true">fo.xsl</property>
DocBook 5.1 and 5.2	HTML multi-page	<property name="db51.toHTML.transform" url="true">chunk.xsl</property>
	HTML single page	<property name="db51.toHTML1.transform" url="true">html.xsl</property>
	HTML Help	<property name="db51.toHTMLHelp.transform" url="true">htmlhelp.xsl</property>
	Eclipse Help	<property name="db51.toEclipseHelp.transform" url="true">eclipse.xsl</property>
	Web Help	<property name="db51.toWebHelp.transform" url="true">webhelp.xsl</property>
	EPUB	<property name="db51.toEpub.transform" url="true">epub.xsl</property>
	RTF, WordprocessingML, OpenDocument, OOXML	<property name="db51.toRTF.transform" url="true">fo.xsl</property>
	PDF, PostScript	<property name="db51.toPS.transform" url="true">fo.xsl</property>
DocBook 5.0	HTML multi-page	<property name="db5.toHTML.transform" url="true">chunk.xsl</property>
	HTML single page	<property name="db5.toHTML1.transform" url="true">html.xsl</property>
	HTML Help	<property name="db5.toHTMLHelp.transform" url="true">htmlhelp.xsl</property>
	Eclipse Help	<property name="db5.toEclipseHelp.transform" url="true">eclipse.xsl</property>
	Web Help	<property name="db5.toWebHelp.transform" url="true">webhelp.xsl</property>
	EPUB	<property name="db5.toEpub.transform" url="true">epub.xsl</property>
	RTF, WordprocessingML, OpenDocument, OOXML	<property name="db5.toRTF.transform" url="true">fo.xsl</property>
	PDF, PostScript	<property name="db5.toPS.transform" url="true">fo.xsl</property>
DocBook 4	HTML multi-page	<property name="docb.toHTML.transform" url="true">chunk.xsl</property>
	HTML single page	<property name="docb.toHTML1.transform" url="true">html.xsl</property>
	HTML Help	<property name="docb.toHTMLHelp.transform" url="true">htmlhelp.xsl</property>
	Eclipse Help	<property name="docb.toEclipseHelp.transform" url="true">eclipse.xsl</property>
	Web Help	<property name="docb.toWebHelp.transform" url="true">webhelp.xsl</property>
	EPUB	<property name="docb.toEpub.transform" url="true">epub.xsl</property>
	RTF, WordprocessingML, OpenDocument, OOXML	<property name="docb.toRTF.transform" url="true">fo.xsl</property>
	PDF, PostScript	<property name="docb.toPS.transform" url="true">fo.xsl</property>
XHTML Strict XHTML Transitional XHTML 1.1 XHTML 5	RTF, WordprocessingML, OpenDocument, OOXML	<property name="xhtml.toRTF.transform" url="true">fo.xsl</property>
XHTML Strict XHTML Transitional XHTML 1.1 XHTML 5	PDF, PostScript	<property name="xhtml.toPS.transform" url="true">fo.xsl</property>

^[6]XSLT style sheet parameter chunker.output.encoding does not work in this case.

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10. Customizing the XSLT style sheets used in the Convert Document submenu