docbook: Thread: About docbook conversion

Hello!
I consider to submit a howto to the TLDP so i am looking for a docbook  
converting tool.
I used OpenOffise, AbiWord, aptocnverter but i got strange results.., I 
got the XML docbook file but it is not convertible. When i make a 
docbook via AbiWord i can not open it with open office. The same issue 
is when i make the docbook file with openoffice.org.
But with the both programs i never could convert the file to the another 
one via docbook2xxxx
I tried to convert the result docbook to the html ... no result. I used 
docbook2html tool.

So, I am confused. What tool I have to use to have available and working 
DocBook document?
There is a xml standart but i suspect the tools don't follow it.
Can anyone help/suggest me some working tool for producing and 
converting docbooks?
I tried AbiWord, OpenOffice, aptconverter but with any of these ones i 
got no compatibility with others.

Regards,
Svetoslav P. Chukov

Try vex:
http://vex.sourceforge.net/
It is excellent for docbook editing

Or try one of the other from:
http://www.xml-dev.com/blog/index.php?action=viewtopic&id=19

saqib
http://www.full-disk-encryption.net

On 11/11/06, Svetoslav P. Chukov ####@####.#### wrote:
> Hello!
> I consider to submit a howto to the TLDP so i am looking for a docbook
> converting tool.
> I used OpenOffise, AbiWord, aptocnverter but i got strange results.., I
> got the XML docbook file but it is not convertible. When i make a
> docbook via AbiWord i can not open it with open office. The same issue
> is when i make the docbook file with openoffice.org.
> But with the both programs i never could convert the file to the another
> one via docbook2xxxx
> I tried to convert the result docbook to the html ... no result. I used
> docbook2html tool.
>
> So, I am confused. What tool I have to use to have available and working
> DocBook document?
> There is a xml standart but i suspect the tools don't follow it.
> Can anyone help/suggest me some working tool for producing and
> converting docbooks?
> I tried AbiWord, OpenOffice, aptconverter but with any of these ones i
> got no compatibility with others.
>
> Regards,
> Svetoslav P. Chukov
>
>
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>
>


-- 
Saqib Ali, CISSP, ISSAP
http://www.full-disk-encryption.net

Hello!
I made a docbook document with conglomerate but i have some suspects 
about it.
The document works fine with OpenOffice, Conglomerate and Mozilla 
Firefox but i got this message in Firefox "This XML file does not appear 
to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is 
shown below."

What exactly it means? The firefox can not understand the file or just 
the file is corrupted?
I work with that file just fine ... but this message is strange.

The document  header is this " <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD 
DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" 
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
<article lang="en-US">"

Here is the document :
http://nhydra.org/BSD%20Sockets%20programming%20in%20C%20-%20HOWTO.xml

I will be appreciated if anybody knows some tool to check my document 
for compatibility with the DocBook standard.

Regards,
Svetoslav P. Chukov