Table of Contents

 • 1. Introduction
 • 2. XSLT2TeX
 • 3. Add ruby to DocBook
 • 4. Validating
 • 5. DocBook xslTNG
 • 6. Setup Emacs for DocBook 5 and XSLT 3.0
 • 7. Content MathML
 • 8. MusicXML to PMX
 • 9. Validation
     □ 9.1. Schematron
     □ 9.2. NVDL

1. Introduction

The idea is fairly simple I would say. xsltproc is available on majority of the
popular platforms.

2. Use XSLT to convert epub books to TeX

A common issue is that XHTML used in epub is with a namespace. So that
namespace should be specified in stylesheet header. Then for example xhtml:html
can be referenced.

 |<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 |                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 |                xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
 |  <xsl:output method="text"
5 |              indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"
 |              encoding = "UTF-8"/>
 |  <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

This snippet is what I use to handle ruby in EPUB files.

  |<xsl:template match="xhtml:ruby">
  |  <xsl:variable name="kanji">
  |    <xsl:for-each select="text()">
  |      <xsl:value-of select="."/>
5 |    </xsl:for-each>
  |  </xsl:variable>
  |  <xsl:text>\ruby[</xsl:text>
  |  <xsl:choose>
  |    <xsl:when test="string-length($kanji) = 1">
10 |      <xsl:text>m</xsl:text>
  |    </xsl:when>
  |      <xsl:when test="count(xhtml:rt) = 1">
  |        <xsl:text>g</xsl:text>
  |      </xsl:when>
15 |      <xsl:otherwise><xsl:text>j</xsl:text></xsl:otherwise>
  |  </xsl:choose>
  |  <xsl:text>]{</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="$kanji"/>
  |  <xsl:text>}{</xsl:text>
  |  <xsl:for-each select="xhtml:rt">
20 |    <xsl:value-of select="." />
  |    <xsl:if test="position() != last()"><xsl:text>|</xsl:text></xsl:if>
  |  </xsl:for-each>
  |  <xsl:text>}</xsl:text>
  |</xsl:template>

For example, <ruby>霊<rt>れい</rt>前<rt>ぜん</rt></ruby>, rendered as 霊れい前
ぜん, can be converted to \ruby[j]{霊前}{れい|ぜん}.

3. Add ruby to DocBook

The DocBook RELAX NG grammar can be extended so HTML ruby is allowed as an
inline text element.

  |# DocBook 5 with ruby tag
  |namespace db = "http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
  |namespace h = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
  |default namespace = "http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
5 |
  |include "docbook5.rnc" {
  |       db.extension.inlines = h.ruby
  |}
  |
10 |h.ruby = element h:ruby {
  |    db._any.attribute*,
  |    ((text | db._any | h.ruby), (h.ruby.rt | (h.ruby.rp, h.ruby.rt, h.ruby.rp))?)+
  |}
  |h.ruby.rp = element h:rp { (db._any.attribute | text)* }
15 |h.ruby.rt = element h:rt { (db._any.attribute | text)* }

This definition should cover much of the examples given by the HTML
specification on ruby.

<h:ruby><h:ruby>東<h:rt>とう</h:rt>南<h:rt>なん</h:rt></h:ruby><h:rt>たつみ</
h:rt></h:ruby>の方角

東とう南なんたつみの方角

Since ruby is prefixed by HTML namespace, no additional XSLT customization is
needed.

4. Validating

If you only have xmllint:

$ xmllint --noout --relaxng docbook-5.0.1/rng/docbook.rng doc.xml

To convert RELAX NG compact syntax to the XML syntax, you would need trang. I
prefer writing RELAX NG in its compact syntax.

5. DocBook xslTNG

I have recently switch to this version to have better code listing support. The
setup is confusing, but still worth it and it follows the DocBook semantic
better, with optimized CSS paged media, etc.

It is written in XSLT 3.0 so there are more available features, but that also
means it requires Saxon. The JAR is self-contained so there are not much
worries about portability.

6. Setup Emacs for DocBook 5 and XSLT 3.0

The nxml-mode containted in Emacs has only DocBook 4 grammar installed. By
downloading RELAX NG schema in compact syntax, and replace that to /etc/schema/
docbook.rnc or edit schemas.xml in the same directory to enable editing support
in Emacs.

The same can be done for update XSLT grammar to 3.0.

7. Content MathML

These lines can apply the content markup to presentation markup of MathML in
DocBook.

 |<xsl:import href="ctop.xsl"/>
 |<xsl:template match="mml:math" mode="m:docbook">
 |  <xsl:apply-templates select="." mode="c2p"/>
 |</xsl:template>

The ctop.xsl is available from David Carlisle's web stylesheets.

A few examples:

 |<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
 |  <apply><eq/>
 |  <apply><diff/>
 |    <bvar><ci>x</ci></bvar>
5 |    <apply><sin/><ci>x</ci></apply>
 |  </apply>
 |  <apply><cos/><ci>x</ci></apply>
 |</apply>

dsin ⁡ x
-------- = cos ⁡ x
  dx

Example 1. Rendered by XSLT

dsin ⁡ x
---------- = cos ⁡ x
   dx

Example 2. Rendered by Temml with \frac{d \sin x}{d x} = \cos x

  |<math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
  |  <apply>
  |    <times/>
  |    <apply>
5 |      <plus/>
  |      <cn>12</cn>
  |      <ci>x</ci>
  |    </apply>
  |    <apply>
10 |      <power/>
  |      <ci>y</ci>
  |      <cn>2</cn>
  |    </apply>
  |  </apply>
15 |</math>

            2
( 12 + x ) y

Example 3. Notice the parenthesis insertion

8. MusicXML to PMX

PMX is the macro preprocessor for MusiXTeX, for some reason xml2pmx cannot
parse MusicXML produced by Opusmodus, thus I need this stylesheet to do part of
the conversion.

  |<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  |<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  |                xmlns:data="_local.uri"
  |                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
5 |  <xsl:output method="text"/>
  |  <data:typemap>
  |        <entry key="breve">9</entry>
  |        <entry key="whole">0</entry>
  |        <entry key="half">2</entry>
10 |        <entry key="quarter">4</entry>
  |        <entry key="eighth">8</entry>
  |        <entry key="16th">1</entry>
  |        <entry key="32nd">3</entry>
  |        <entry key="64th">6</entry>
15 |  </data:typemap>
  |  <xsl:template match="/">
  |    <xsl:apply-templates select="score-partwise/part"/>
  |  </xsl:template>
  |  <xsl:template match="part">
20 |    <xsl:for-each select="measure">
  |      <xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
  |    </xsl:for-each>
  |  </xsl:template>
  |  <xsl:template match="measure">
25 |    <xsl:text>% measure </xsl:text>
  |    <xsl:value-of select="@number" />
  |    <xsl:text>&#xA;</xsl:text>
  |    <xsl:for-each select="note">
  |      <xsl:apply-templates select="."/>
30 |    </xsl:for-each>
  |    <xsl:text>/&#xA;</xsl:text>
  |  </xsl:template>
  |  <xsl:template match="note">
  |    <xsl:variable name="_ntype" select="type"/>
35 |    <xsl:variable name="ntype" select="document('')/xsl:stylesheet/data:typemap/entry[@key=$_ntype]"/>
  |    <xsl:if test="tie[@type='start']">
  |      <xsl:text>( </xsl:text>
  |    </xsl:if>
  |    <xsl:choose>
40 |      <xsl:when test="rest">
  |        <xsl:text>r</xsl:text>
  |        <xsl:value-of select="$ntype"/>
  |      </xsl:when>
  |      <xsl:when test="chord">
45 |        <xsl:text>z</xsl:text>
  |        <xsl:value-of select='translate(pitch/step,"ABCDEFG", "abcdefg")'/>
  |        <xsl:value-of select="pitch/octave"/>
  |      </xsl:when>
  |      <xsl:otherwise>
50 |        <xsl:value-of select='translate(pitch/step,"ABCDEFG", "abcdefg")'/>
  |        <xsl:value-of select="$ntype"/>
  |        <xsl:value-of select="pitch/octave"/>
  |        <xsl:if test="accidental">
  |          <xsl:value-of select="substring(accidental, 1, 1)"/>
55 |        </xsl:if>
  |        <xsl:if test="dot">
  |          <xsl:text>d</xsl:text>
  |        </xsl:if>
  |      </xsl:otherwise>
60 |    </xsl:choose>
  |    <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
  |    <xsl:if test="tie[@type='stop']">
  |      <xsl:text>) </xsl:text>
  |    </xsl:if>
65 |  </xsl:template>
  |</xsl:stylesheet>

I'm working on convert the stylesheet to XSLT 3.0, so that defining maps would
be easier.

9. Validation

9.1. Schematron

This is another XML schema language that is designed to be transformed by XSLT
to become another XSLT stylesheet to analysis the target XML file. It can
impose more complex constraint that RELAX NG cannot specify, with XPath
expressions.

Note that although it is possible to embed Schematron into RELAX NG, it is
still required to be extracted from the RELAX NG schema to be used for
validation in most case.

9.2. NVDL

This is supported by Jing, however the features of Jing are relatively
undocumented. By default, it would strip out elements that are in a different
namespace. Thus <attach/> rule needs to be used to validate against the
original schema.

Below is an example of NVDL I used to validate articles I wrote in DocBook.

  |<rules xmlns="http://purl.oclc.org/dsdl/nvdl/ns/structure/1.0" startMode="init">
  |  <mode name="init">
  |    <namespace ns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
  |      <validate schema="rng/docbookrb.rng" useMode="verymml"/>
5 |      <validate schema="sch/docbookxi.sch" useMode="allowmml"/>
  |    </namespace>
  |  </mode>
  |  <mode name="verymml">
  |    <namespace ns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
10 |      <attach/>
  |      <validate schema="mathml3/mathml3.rng"/>
  |    </namespace>
  |    <namespace ns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  |      <attach/>
15 |    </namespace>
  |    <namespace ns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
  |      <attach/>
  |    </namespace>
  |  </mode>
20 |  <mode name="allowmml">
  |    <namespace ns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML">
  |      <allow/>
  |    </namespace>
  |    <namespace ns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
25 |      <allow/>
  |    </namespace>
  |    <namespace ns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
  |      <allow/>
  |    </namespace>
30 |  </mode>
  |</rules>

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