13.1. Introduction

13.1. Introduction
	13. The "Customize Document Conversion Stylesheets" dialog box

The document being edited is converted to other formats by the means of XSLT stylesheets.

Figure 9.15. Converting an XML document to an XSL-FO based format

This dialog box allows to:

Select an XSLT stylesheet other the default one.
Example: when converting a DocBook document to HTML, the default XSLT stylesheet generates HTML and does not support profiling. this dialog box allows to select any of the following alternate XSLT stylesheets: "Generate HTML; profiling stylesheet", "Generate XHTML", "Generate XHTML; profiling stylesheet".
Create a custom XSLT stylesheet on the fly.
A custom XSLT stylesheet created this way merely imports the stock XSLT stylesheet. Example:
```
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="1.0">
  <xsl:import href="docbook-config:xsl/fo/docbook.xsl"/>
  
</xsl:stylesheet>
```
After such custom XSLT stylesheet has been created, the user is expected to add to it a number of parameters and attribute-sets.
Invoke a specialized editor —XMLmind XSL Customizer— to modify a user-created XSLT stylesheet.

However, when the document being edited is converted to an HTML-based format (Web Help, EPUB, HTML Help, etc)^[30], the HTML pages which are automatically generated by the aforementioned XSLT stylesheets are styled mainly by CSS stylesheets.

Figure 9.16. Converting an XML document to an HTML-based format

When this is the case, this dialog box allows additionally to:

Select a CSS stylesheet other the default one.
Create a custom CSS stylesheet on the fly.
A custom CSS stylesheet created this way merely imports the stock CSS stylesheet. Example:
```
@charset "UTF-8";
@import url(base.css);
/* ADD YOUR STYLES HERE */
```
After such custom CSS stylesheet has been created, the user is expected to add to it a number of styles.
Invoke a helper application (generally, a text editor) to modify a user-created CSS stylesheet.

^[30]As opposed to XSL-FO based formats (PDF, RTF, .docx, .odt, etc).


13. The "Customize Document Conversion Stylesheets" dialog box		13.2. Reference