discuss: Thread: DocBook example

Which is the ideal HOWTO available in DocBook format which can be used
as an example / reference implementation to check the markup?

I have  converted the  MP3 HOWTO using  sgmltools -B  ld2db <filename>
command. 

Is there some tool available to verify the markup of a DocBook file?


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Hello,

You can use the following website to validate DocBook or convert
DocBook XML -> HTML.

http://validate.sf.net


> Is there some tool available to verify the markup of a DocBook file?


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> Which is the ideal HOWTO available in DocBook format which can be used
> as an example / reference implementation to check the markup?
>
> I have  converted the  MP3 HOWTO using  sgmltools -B  ld2db <filename>
> command.

You might get valid markup from this type of conversion,
but it's far from an optimal use of docbook tags. I found
that a fair amount of cleanup is still required post-conversion.

Greg / LDP

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On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, Mahesh T. Pai wrote:

> Which is the ideal HOWTO available in DocBook format which can be used
> as an example / reference implementation to check the markup?

I've already answered on the editors mailinglist but I'll do it here as
well, because few people seem to know that we have a lot of help on this:

Templates can be found here:

http://www.tldp.org/LDP/LDP-Author-Guide/html/templates-book.html
Most useful is the Sample HOWTO (first link)

Actual examples are in abundance in the CVS:
http://cvs.tldp.org/index.cgi/LDP/howto/docbook

> I have  converted the  MP3 HOWTO using  sgmltools -B  ld2db <filename>
> command.
>
> Is there some tool available to verify the markup of a DocBook file?

On the commandline, you can use xmllint from the libxml package.

Thanks for going through the trouble to do all this,

Tille.

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