Great, thanks. That would be interesting. If it can be made public, please 
throw it up on github or similar otherwise please email me.

Although I don't want a cgi, I'd be interested in the structure you settled on.

Ari


On 18/07/2015 9:31pm, Gerard Nicol wrote:
> 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/
>>
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