Nico Williams wrote: > The LaTeX->XML tools I've tried leave me... sad. They tend to drop > some things. For example: vertical space, which becomes a simple > newline in a paragraph's text. It would be better to translate > vertical space into <vspace/> elements -- that'd be much, much more > useful in XSLT than embedded newlines! > > So I'm wondering: why couldn't LyX export to XML using a native schema > that preserves as much LyX markup as possible, indeed, if not all of > it?
google says: http://bgu.perso.libertysurf.fr/doc/db4lyx/ http://www.neomantic.com/tutorials/lyx-and-docbookXML/ > How does LyX represent documents internally? If it does it in an > objectified form then it should be fairly straightforward to walk the > document tree and emit XML, no? Or, looking at .lyx files, maybe it > should be possible to script a simple LyX->XML conversion.... has > anyone tried this before? we miss someone who knows docbook/sgml/xml rather well and would like to help to bring lyx output more up-to-date or at least clearly state what needs to be done. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/119220 p
