Hi Peter! Thank you for your reply! I was afraid that my question was little bit unclear. I am working on a XSLT transformation from Flare to Docbook – at least I am thinking about it. I’m not a tech writer, so I haven’t used Flare for content creation and therefor I am still a novice when it comes to Flare. I’m a system developer with a broad knowledge in a number of programming languages (e.g. XSLT). Right now, I try to understand the structure and inner concept of a Flare project.
Looking at the source code for a Flare project, a good candidate for the initial transformation would be the Flare Toc file. I’m aware of the fact that there is no equivalent to a Flare Toc file (or Ditamap for that matter) in Docbook. However, it seems that the Toc file already contains some vital information for the transformation: the content structure and links to the actual content. The HTML content could very well be transformed with Herold, as you already pointed out. I was hoping for someone who already has done something similar before and who could share some insights. Frank Arensmeier Paligo - The truly user-friendly CMS for technical documentation www.paligo.se <http://www.paligo.se/> > 9 dec 2015 kl. 16:51 skrev Peter Lavin <[email protected]>: > > I’m not sure if I understand exactly what you are asking but here goes. > > Use herold from dbdoclet.org <http://dbdoclet.org/> to convert HTML to > DocBook. [sales pitch] You might find "DocBook for Writers" useful when doing > this kind of conversion. It's available as an EPUB from Google or as a MOBI > from Amazon. > > Do you have access to Flare HTML output files? If so, use these files rather > than the "raw" Flare files. The raw files will probably contain proprietary > tags such as "<MadCap:xref>" but the output files will have converted these > to standard HTML that herold can process. > > There is no DocBook equivalent to a Flare TOC file. The structure of a > DocBook document is used to create a table of contents. How are your > programming skills? Assuming that your Flare TOC entries point only at files > (rather than other TOC files or Flare bookmarks) you could transform the > Flare TOC to a DocBook file with Xincludes referencing each file created by > herold. The root element of your main DocBook file will depend upon what > parameter you use with the herold option, "--docbook-root-element". > > -- > Excuse brevity. Sent from a mobile device. > > Hi List! > > I am wondering, does anyone have any experience with transforming Madcap > Flare to Docbook? I mean not within Flare – rather a transformation that > takes a Madcap flare Toc file as input. The only reference I could find to > Madcap on this list was a short conversation from 2006 > (http://markmail.org/search/?q=madcap+flare&q=list%3Aorg.oasis-open.lists.docbook#query:madcap%20flare%20list%3Aorg.oasis-open.lists.docbook+page:1+mid:a5szwhwjtaaeoo6j+state:results > > <http://markmail.org/search/?q=madcap+flare&q=list:org.oasis-open.lists.docbook#query:madcap%20flare%20list:org.oasis-open.lists.docbook+page:1+mid:a5szwhwjtaaeoo6j+state:results>). > The interview referenced there seems not available anymore. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks! > /frank > > > Frank Arensmeier > > Paligo - The truly user-friendly CMS for technical documentation > www.paligo.se <http://www.paligo.se/>
