Thread: XSLT vs InDesign - best conversion process?
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Old 04-18-2013, 03:58 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
As long as these XML files all use the same classes, then you can create one master CSS file which can then be used in all books.

As long as all these documents are tagged in a very consistent way, this should be the best bet.
I come here to say precisely this. The initial investment of time might be higher than using crappy InDesign, but it pays off as soon as you have more than a couple of eBooks to convert.

Plus, there are DocBook -> EPUB (via XSLT) tools around, which you might find useful to start from. For example:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook/files/epub3/
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xm.../section5.html
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/XQuery/DocBook_to_ePub
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