On Wednesday, 22. June 2011 09:15:52 Gary Schnabl wrote:
A DTD (say, a DocBook 4.5 DTD--the last normative version, 03 Oct
2006) only deals with document structure--not formatting a document.
So, you would have to employ something else for formatting purposes,
much like CSS formats XHTML code.
[lots of technical stuff snipped]
(Sorry, I'm really not an expert here, I just wanted to share the idea.)
Gary, my point was not to *use* DocBook but to take ODT and provide
export filters to generate HTML *like* DocBook does.
OOo really never did much with its so-called DocBook XML.
But - at least from a non-expert view like mine - DocBook seems to be
XML with chapters, paragraphs and so on, and ODT is XML with chapters,
paragraphs and so on. So at least in theory they should be mutually
convertable, shouldn't they?
So hypothetically, the DocBook-to-HTML converter should be easliy
tweakable to take ODT as input. Ok, by an advanced developer ;-)
Nino
DocBook XML publishing might be done in a well-staffed publishing house.
However, OOo or LO just does not possess neither the manpower, the time,
nor the expertise to do that.
As I said, a DTD file merely provides rules for structuring a document,
but does not format it. Somebody has to create a formatting file and
also a template based upon the marriage between DTD and the formatting
file. It is not an easy, straightforward task.
Doing some small DocBook (XML) programming and formatting with very
simple files would help one to grasp the work that needs to be done,
though. For that, confer the Sagehill link for documentation on how to
go about that. It would be good training in the event somebody wanted to
ever go that route. Personally, if I were to go the DocBook XML route, I
would employ a WYSIWYG app like FrameMaker instead of apps using a
command line and such. I do not working all that hard.
In any event, it is John who wanted to take on the HTML-creation task.
He will soon find out that today, one or more CSS files does the XHTML
formatting. (I prefer viewing PDFs over most XHTML, amyway.)
As I mentioned before, I will enable the LO Writer Guide PDF for Adobe
Reader markup. That would be a good markup exercise for anybody at LO
who might want to copyedit it--or proofread it, assuming it is finished.
And playing with Comment and Review (analysis) is also fun to do. I will
upload that enabled PDF in a day or two.
Gary
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