On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 01:22:03PM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: > At 12:26 PM 12/30/2001 +0100, Simon Pepping wrote: > >The idea has crossed my mind as well. Docbook has become the standard > >for all sorts of technical documentation, and it would be nice if such > >documentation could be formatted using Context. But it is a huge > >undertaking indeed. One should start on a subset, there should be > >agreement on which subset, and one should be prepared for a long > >lasting project. > > starting from a subset is doable; is there such a subset known? a quick > look into the oreilly's docbook book shows a lot of (probably never used) > stuff,
Not really. I guess article and book as document element are most popular. But beyond that one has to make a choice which elements are most relevant. There are indeed many elements which seem only useful in exceptional cases. I am currently getting some practice with XML in Context by creating a mapping for a DocBook file by myself. Until now it is surprisingly easy. The XML interface works fine. I guess it will become more difficult if one needs to account for elements whose presence or absence influences the layout. Perhaps it would be best to take a number of existing DocBook documentation files and construct a mapping that works for all of them. That would give a mapping that might work for many elements and that could be expanded gradually. Simon -- Simon Pepping email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
