discuss: Converting to html
Subject:
Re: Converting to html
From:
Tabatha Persad ####@####.####
Date:
3 Aug 2002 18:52:41 -0000
Message-Id: <1028390412.19863.56.camel@mysticchild.dbsoftware.com>
Hi again, Gerardo,
I don't know if you're using a popular distribution of Linux, but in
many cases, the openjade tools can be found in the major ones.
If you want to try openjade, there's a great howto that explains how to
get everything set up:
http://www.jimweller.net/jim/dbxmlqs/index.html
If you have a major distro installed, you don't necessarily need to do
the step for installing openjade. Do a rpm -qa | grep openjade and see
if you have it installed before you proceed. If it's not, then take
that step first.
The howto, if followed to the letter, gets the tools running perfectly
every time. Once done, you can use openjade as follows:
openjade -t sgml -d /path/to/ldp.dsl#html /path/to/docbook.dcl
yourfile.sgml
This will create the html based on the LDP look.
I am not as familiar with the other tools, but I'm hoping other folks
will jump in to talk about alternatives to openjade, since it's not
necessarily the most efficient way to convert to html!
By the way, do you have the psgml plugin for Emacs? What this does is
load extra menus into Emacs when you load an sgml or xml file, so that
you can easily work with markup. If you're using the latest version of
XEmacs it might already be built in!
Keep emailing me if you need more info!
Thanks,
Tab
On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 09:29, Gerardo Arnaez wrote:
>
> --- Tabatha Persad ####@####.#### wrote:
> > Hi Gerardo,
> >
> hello, I looked at the seciton you mentioned
> > My first question would be, what tools are you using
> > to create sgml?
>
> I use sgmltools,
> I tried sgmltools -b html *.gsml which converted into
> multiple pages of clean html,
> but certainly did look as as the html conversions
> other people have down for me on tldp.org. That is
> what I am looking to do
> >
> > Your authoring toolbox needs more than just the
> > ability to create
> > markup. You need to be able to apply a stylesheet
> > to format the text to
> > html.
> >
>
> I believe it it dsssl
>
> > I believe there is a script available to convert to
> > html (section
> > 3.4.2.1), but you can also use jade/openjade to
> > process your work.
> >
> > Section 3 of the Author's Guide discusses the
> > stylesheets and the jade
> > tools etc.
> >
> > If you can tell me more about what environment you
> > are working in I can
> > probably help you with this better.
> >
>
> Thanks, linux, emacs, sgmltools
>
> > Thanks!
> > Tabatha
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 02:52, Gerardo Arnaez wrote:
> > > Hi all, read the authors guide and still not clear
> > on
> > > how to covert sgml into the html that I see on
> > > tldp.org
> > >
> > > thanks for the help and pointers
> >
> > --
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