DocBook stylesheets localization

  • DocBook stylesheets are locale aware by default

  • support for more then 40 languages

  • all automatically generated texts are localized (ToC, xrefs, quotes, …)

  • language preference is taken from the document or from the stylesheet parameter

    <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
    <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN' 
              'http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd'>
    <book lang="de">
      ... German book ...
    </book>
  • each localization is stored in XML document