[FM Discuss] Importing DocBooks

[adam]

you can of course do a lot with class and id attributes...


adam



On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 06:53 +0100, Vito Smolej wrote:
> > Well, converting back again is a different question -- you hadn't
> > mentioned that part :-)
> >
> > What is the workflow that you're hoping to create, that requires a
> > round-trip from DocBook to booki and back again?
> My intention was not to start with DocBook and end there again after a
> round trip, what for... What I meant was the work necessary on the leg
> HTML to booki: either there's little or none, so booki provides less
> semantics in its structure than DocBook; or I have to add back again,
> what has been stripped off on the leg down from DocBook > HTML.
> > For DocBook-to-booki, if you want to preserve the semantic markup from
> > DocBook, perhaps you could tweak the transformation to stick the
> > DocBook tag names into class or id attributes on the HTML elements.
> > (Easy for me to say, never having tried it.) People on one of the
> > DocBook mailing lists (http://www.docbook.org/guidelines) would know
> > more about that than folks here.
> ... which means I have to read about the tags accepted / acceptable. The
> best of course (sigh) would be to have some kind of a booki.dtd, so this
> "tweak-transformation" could be done directly and not via HTML.
> 
> > --Janet
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