Richard Sharpe writes:
> Assuming I was interested in converting to DocBook XML, what are the steps?
>
> 1. How do I get my current SGML source converted?
In addition to the answer "sx" you need to convert the element names to
lower case and insert a declaration to pick up some general entities.
This works for me:
DECL := <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1/docbookx.dtd">
%.xml: %.sgml
osx -x lower $< > [email protected]
(sed 1q [email protected]; echo '$(DECL)'; sed 1d [email protected]) > $@
rm [email protected]
You may get tons of warnings about sdata not allowed in XML -- ignore
them.
> 2. If and when I have DocBook SML source, how to I convert it to PDF?
A couple of options:
* Use DSSSL -> pdfjadetex (no need for XML here). Works okay if you don't
have too complicated tables.
* Use DSSSL -> rtf -> word processor. YMMV, but at least you'll always
get there.
* Use FOP (xml.apache.org). Dubious maturity.
* Use PassiveTeX. Dubious usability.
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Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://yi.org/peter-e/
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