The second edition of Bob Stayton's DocBook XSL:
The Complete Guide, covering "all
aspects of DocBook XML publishing tools, including installing,
using, and customizing the XSL stylesheets and processing tools",
is now available in
paperback book form.
An E-book
(PDF) version of the guide remains available for purchase, as
does the HTML
version, the full text of which is also available online.
A list of changes made for the second edition is
available. This edition adds a significant amount of content to
the guide - which was already extremely thorough, with
step-by-step instructions on everything from tool setup to
customizing output to stylesheet debugging.
Stayton has some first-rate qualifications for authoring such a
guide. He's a member of the DocBook Technical Committee at OASIS, responsible for
overseeing changes to the DocBook vocabulary itself, and one of
the most active contributors to discussions on the docbook-apps mailing list, often tackling questions from new
users or following up on bug reports from the field.
Also, along with Jirka Kosek, he's a major contributor to
development of the DocBook XSL stylesheets (created by Norm Walsh,
who also continues to do principal development on them). Among a
variety of bug fixes and smaller enhancements, he's responsible
for contributing the implementation of XSLT support for the
DocBook Olink
element, a sophisticated system that
enables relative links to be maintained among rendered DocBook
documents -- covered in detail in the book.