docbook: omf question
Subject:
Re: omf question
From:
David Merrill ####@####.####
Date:
16 Mar 2001 13:28:16 -0000
Message-Id: <20010316082708.B17166@lupercalia.net>
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 07:08:15AM -0500, Dan York wrote:
> David,
>
> > Greg Ferguson wrote a perl script to convert docbook sgml metadata
> > into omf format. It is called, logically enough, db2omf.
>
> I'll go back to a question I posted in the discuss list but saw
> no answer to - what exactly is omf? why should I care? and where
> can I learn more?
http://www.ibiblio.org/osrt/omf/
It is essentially an XML DTD designed for open source documentation -
metadata only. Kind of like a card file for our documents. Lots more
on their site.
I'm not an expert either. :-)
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