I've (laaaazily) started collecting my blog posts, reorganized, into a
book that I'd use for my mentoring activities. The choice so far has been
DocBook + Maven + a specific Maven plugin that allows me to include live
portions of code samples. So far so good. But so far I've worked
copypasting my existing blog posts, translated from HTML to DocBook XML,
while I realize that it would be much more efficient, for new blog posts,
to write them in DocBook XML and convert to HTML. At this point, the
question: with HTML5 which supports microformats, is DocBook still worth
while? Cay Hortsmann, in an interview, said he's using XHTML for writing
his book about Scala:
http://blog.eisele.net/2011/10/heroes-of-java-cay-horstmann.html
Actually, what I find annoying for DocBook is editing. I'm using XmlEditor
from XmlMind (http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/) which explicitly supports
DocBook XML, but it's not the most agile editing I've experienced so far.
Until a few weeks ago I was not satisfied with HTML editors as well, so it
made little difference. But now I've found Bluegriffon and I work wery
well with it. That's why I'm evaluating whether moving definitely to HTML5
is a good idea. More in detail, as I'm moving all my sites to a compact
CMS I've written, the idea for publishing DocBook stuff was to integrate
into my CMS the XSLT transformation from DocBook XML to HTML. The HTML5
approach could make this integration unneeded.
And, BTW, I'm a bit confused about the relationship between HTML5 and
XHTML5, and whether the latter will be really adopted or not.
Thanks for any suggestion.
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