* jonathon; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 14 Aug, 2002 wrote: > >>If I had that problem, I would convert as many of them as I could to HTML, run >'tidy' to clean up the HTML, >>and then run the DocParse tool from www.commmandprompt.com to convert them to >DocBook. > > That sounds like the easiest option, since the majority of them are > in HTML format. Tidy can get everything to the same version of HTML. > > Somewhere I have a perl script that converts plain ASCII to HTML > 2.0. Tidy can clean up and upgrade the results to 4.01. > > Most of the formatted non-HTML, non-plain ASCII documents can be > converted to HTML using whatever created them in that format. > > There is the irony of converting to HTML, then to DocBook, then back > to HTML so that it can be seen on the web. >
http://docbook.org/wiki/moin.cgi/Html2DocBook explains that HTML should be converted to XHTML (which is xml) and then applying a stylesheet given on the webpage xonvert XHTML to Docbook. HTH -- Togan Muftuoglu
