John Maddock wrote:
> Rene Rivera wrote:
>>> This is exactly the point! Boostbook is a great tool...
>>> For me our problem is how to make html based docs look as our
>>> boostbook docs. Your processor may be very, very useful. While we are
>> My processor would be way simpler, if the boostbook docs did not use
>> html for styling. Basically my processor cleans up the terrible html
>> the docbook xslt transforms generate.
> 
> Oh dear :-(
> 
> I've just committed some changes to the Boostbook toolchain that enables 
> XHTML generation from Boostbook/quickbook, been meaning to try that for 
> ages...
> 
> So: bjam xhtml

Cool... Thanks :-) I'll have to try that soon.

> generates an xhtml subdirectory with the chunked docs in it, but in XHTML 
> format rather than HTML.  Not sure if this addresses your concerns but there 
> we go.

I'll see... One of the big things I noticed in the recent docs is using 
tables for the admonitions.

> I do note that the output doesn't *quite* validate correctly with 
> HTML Tidy because our existing stylesheet modifications don't *quite* 
> generate XHTML.  They look easy enough to fix though if someone will take it 
> on.  If there are still any other misplaced formatting elements in there, 
> I'm sure we can modify the XSL to fix that as well :-)

Maybe this is something Matias could do. Since it would help 
tremendously if we move the docs to this decade. Especially as it opens 
them up to a wider audience.



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