docbook and revision control was Re: Gnome users manual (was: Ubuntu book)

[John Hornbeck]

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 20:35 +0300, Alexander Poslavsky wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:24:31 -0500, John Hornbeck
> <hornbeck at freeshell.org> wrote:
> (well actually sparkes wrote)
> > > I've had a similar problem today.  I wanted to go from docbook(SGML) to
> > > ReST so we can use the ReST to write docbook(XML) latter.  The stupidity
> > > of the whole concept only struck me when I was away from my computer
> > > doing something completely unrelated.
> 
> > > any suggestions.
> 
> We can use ReST to Docbook as far as i understand, can sb with more
> docbook skills test it?
> 
Docbook is not standard xml.  It has it's own tags and the likes.  I am
not sure how docutils does it, but I am going to be testing it in a few
minutes.  I will let everyone know my results.  If it works I will do a
wiki page for setting it up.

>  http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/user/tools.html#rst2xml-py
> 
> But the other way around i have not been able to find...
> 
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John Hornbeck
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