XML News from Thursday, February 10, 2005

Michael Smith has posted version 1.68.0 of the DocBook XSL stylesheets. These support transforms to HTML, XHTML, and XSL-FO. Besides bug fixes, major enhancements in this release include:

• Side floats, margin notes, and custom floats.
• New parameters body.start.indent and body.end.indent
• xml:id
• refdescriptor.
• Multiple refnamedivs.
• Customization of index entries.
• @floatstyle in figure
• table-layout="auto" for XEP
• sidebar-width and float-type processing instructions in sidebar
• new hyphenate.verbatim.characters parameter to specify characters after which a line break can occur in verbatim environments.
• itemizedlist.label.markup to enable selection of different bullet
• New SVG admonition graphics and navigation images.