discuss: DocBook Tools
Subject:
DocBook Tools
From:
Poet/Joshua Drake ####@####.####
Date:
16 Jul 2001 00:47:11 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0107151736070.22725-100000@commandprompt.com>
Hello,
I know that everybody keeps mention the lack of DocBook tools. Although I
don't agree with the sentiment, I do know that there is a distinct lack of
"Graphical" Docbook tools.
Command Prompt (My company) has written a tool that will take ANY html and
convert it to valid DocBook. Why am I saying this?
Well, it is really very simple. You could use ANY word processor that can
save as HTML. Lyx I believe can do this, as can AbiWord, Kword, StarOffice
etc... Even Word Perfect 8 can do it.
No the tool is not open source. No the tool is not free but I would be
willing to discount the price a bit if enough people wanted to purchase
it. Xerox and Learning Network already use it.
If your not interested, fair enough but it sure seems like an easy
solution to a difficult problem.
Take a look at http://www.commandprompt.com/products_DocParse.lxp , there
are some examples of how the tool works and what the output looks like.
Joshua Drake
On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Randy Kramer wrote:
>jdd wrote:
>> > Checkout both Koffice Beta3 and AbiWord. Both Export to DocBook.
>>
>> there is a "mime type sgml" export, but a try gives no docbook correct output
>>
>> these products seems unable to give default correct syntax.
>
>I'm sure the developer's of AbiWord (and probably those of Koffice)
>would like to make it work correctly. I think what it takes is someone
>to try AbiWord and file specific bugs.
>
>In the last few months a new list has been setup,
####@####.#### to serve the needs of volunteer documentors
>for AbiWord. I mention them because they've needed to go through a
>similar process in posting bugs to get the XHTML (or HTML, or both?)
>output from AbiWord to be correct, and they may have some familiarity
>with DocBook, or SMGL, or both.
>
>Knowing only that DocBook is a markup language that puts tags of various
>sorts within angle brackets, I'm guessing that someone would have to
>setup a style for each DocBook tag that might be used.
>
>I made a small test document in Abiword, consisting of the word test in
>two separate paragraphs. I then applied the Numbered Heading 1 style to
>the first "test" and left the other as plain text. I then exported the
>document to DocBook, and looked at the output in a text editor. (It
>looked good to me!) Perhaps I could send this document to someone and
>you could tell me what's wrong with it, and give me suggestions on other
>tags that we should deal with (one or two at a time), and let's see if
>we can get AbiWord to handle everything you need.
>
>Randy Kramer
>
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