I have a program that does this and it also ties into make and visual studio.
I use it to append change notes to the end of my man pages which are in docbook. It outputs natively to RSS as a cgi program too. If you're interested I'm happy to share. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 18, 2015, at 12:42 PM, Aristedes Maniatis <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm wanting to write release notes for our product in docbook. We already > have very successful docbook tooling around the manual, so it makes sense to > pull this in as well. > > My goals are to create nice looking webpages (here is our existing docbook > output [1]) and also a RSS feed. So I was thinking that semantically it would > be preferable to not just have sections/chapters, but something that we could > transform to RSS more precisely. > > I looked at the <revision> element, but <revdescription> doesn't support > sections, subheadings, etc. and by default <revision> all wants to print on > the title page, doesn't generate TOC, etc. So I'd have a lot of customising > to do. > > * Has anyone tried to do this? > > * What is the current state of <revision> for the purpose of versioning > things other than the docbook content itself? > > * Is there any XSLT for creating RSS from docbook content? I see something in > the docbook-website project but the sourceforge pages are down and I don't > really understand how docbook-website works. > > * how does the docbook project itself produce release notes? > > > Thanks for any help > Ari Maniatis > > > [1] http://www.ish.com.au/s/onCourse/doc/latest/manual/ > > -- > --------------------------> > Aristedes Maniatis > ish > http://www.ish.com.au > Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia > phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 > GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
