Changes in the Fourth Edition

Changes in the Fourth Edition
	Preface

Here is a list of the major changes since the Third Edition of DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide. The Fourth Edition covers version 1.73 of the DocBook XSL stylesheets and versions 4.5 and 5.0 of the DocBook XML schema. Links to websites are up-to-date as of August 2007.

Updated Java product names and version numbers in Table 3.2, “Java versions”.
Describe control of FO root messages in the section “Using FOP”.
Add Chapter 4, DocBook 5 tools.
Info on prefer="public" not working as expected in the section “Example DocBook catalog file”.
Add the section “Filename prefix”.
Use chunkfast.xsl stylesheet rather than chunk.fast parameter in the section “Fast chunking”.
Add Table 7.1, “Number formats for autolabel parameters”.
Add SVG callout icons in the section “Callout icons”.
Add the section “Crop marks”.
Add the section “Utility templates and modes”.
New section on adding new templates in the section “Adding new templates”.
Add the section “Customizing DocBook 5 XSL”.
Add the section “Set TOC”.
Add the section “Adding elements to a TOC”.
Add the section “Formal title numbering”.
Add the section “Formal title customization”.
Add the section “Generate custom class values”.
Add the section “Bread crumbs”.
Add the section “Changing the <h> levels”.
Add the section “How chunking works”.
Add the section “Footer link to legalnotice”.
Add Return To Top links in the section “Return to top”.
Add the section “Head links for legalnotice”.
Add the section “Customized hrefs”.
Add the section “Hyphenation”.
Add the section “Run-in section titles”.
Add the section “Additional front or back matter”.
Add the section “Book covers”.
Add the section “Landscape page sequence”.
Add the section “Custom page sequences”.
Add controlling TOC margins in the section “TOC Page margins”.
Add the section “Part TOC on part titlepage”.
Add customizing head.sep.rule in the section “Changing header or footer styles”.
Add the section “Page x of y numbering”.
Describe Arabic-Indic numbering in the section “Page number format”.
Underline and strikethrough text in the section “Underline and strike-through”.
Add the section “Side-by-side formatting”.
Add the section “Clearing a side float”.
Add the section “Multi-columns and spans”.
Updated FOP font configuration in the section “Configuring a font in FOP”.
Add numbering paragraphs customization in the section “Numbering paragraphs”.
Add line break processing instruction in the section “Adding line breaks”.
Added the section “ISO 690 bibliography standard”.
Add the section “RefDB bibliographic database”.
Add the section “Breaking long URLs”.
Add the section “DocBook 5 cross references”.
Add insert.link.page.number parameter in the section “Using "select:"”.
Add the section “Customizing page citations”.
Add the section “Customizing cross reference behavior”.
Glossary sorting was added in the section “Glossary sorting”.
Add the section “Graphic size extension”.
Add the section “Landscape images”.
Add the section “Inline graphics”.
Add the section “SVG DTD”.
Add the section “Imagemaps”.
Add the section “EPS to SVG”.
Add the section “XSL-FO processor indexing extensions”.
Add the section “Index punctuation”.
Add the section “Space characters”.
Add font family list and Unicode font information to the section “FO font-family list”.
Add the section “Text direction”.
Add the section “Print properties for itemizedlist” and the section “Print properties for orderedlist”.
Add the section “Multiple term elements”.
Add the section “simplelist options”.
Add mathphrase to the section “Plain text math”.
Add the section “Equation numbering”.
Clarify xpointer() scheme in Note.
Add the section “Putting customized entities in the DTD”.
Changed Java XIncluder to use XOM jar file in the section “Using XIncluder in XOM to resolve XIncludes”.
Add the section “Using an XSL-FO processor with XIncludes”.
Add the section “Using modified id values”.
Tip on using document id for targetdoc for olinking, in the section “How to link between documents”.
Clarify that olink filename parameters can include directory names in the section “Target database location”.
Add the section “Target database location”.
Add the section “Open target in new window”.
Describe nodocname xrefstyle value for olinks in the section “Using xrefstyle attributes”.
Add the section “Customizing the olink template”.
Add the section “Microsoft Word”.
Add xsl:output with doctype in the section “Validation and profiling”.
Add the section “Adding new profiling attributes”.
Add the section “Adding attributes to RelaxNG”.
Add the section “Formatting listings”.
Add the section “Tab expansion”.
Show template that handles callout number sequencing in the section “Callouts”.
Add the section “Q and A cross references”.
Add the section “Q and A in table of contents”.
Add Chapter 29, Revision control.
Add table centering in the section “Table alignment”.
Add the section “Full-width tables”.
Add the section “table.row.properties template”.
Add the section “tabstyle template”.
Add SilkPage to Website in the section “SilkPage: enhanced Website”.
Remove the section on dbtexmath since PassiveTex no longer supported.


Audience		Acknowledgements