On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:46:29AM -0400, David Nalley wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > > > > > Need some advice from docbook gurus. > > > > Are there scripts that take Mediawiki content and pump it straight into > > Docbook? �And if so, how expensive is it to run such a set of scripts over > > our current version of the textbook? �Is it the kind of thing where we > > could be doing "nigtly build" equivalents, or is it really the kind of > > thing we need to do once at the end? > > > > --g > > > > -- > > Educational materials should be high-quality, collaborative, and free. > > Visit http://opensource.com/education and join the conversation. > > _______________________________________________ > > tos mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos > > > > Short answer - not really - or at least nothing I know about. > > Within Fedora Docs we start with Release Notes, and a group does the > manual work of setting up chapters, sections, etc, and then gradually > adds tags. > > Perhaps a weekend hackfest with some DocBook types (Jared Smith seems > to turn around stuff like this in amazing time) can get together and > start this work.
The python-mwlib package does have a converter script which will produce valid DocBook. The output usually has to be tuned by hand but it's somewhat of a time saver. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Where open source multiplies: http://opensource.com
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