? to Docbook [was Re: kubuntu ubuntuguide version]

[Sean Wheller]

On Thursday 21 April 2005 12:30, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote:
> I was almost forgetting the caveat :) that I'm pretty ignorant on XML
> details, including DocBook and OOo versions. So I might be missing
> something ridiculously fundamental.

Fundamental, yes. But Abdullah this converstion is long and pressing for time. 
Although, it is interesting to me, I must ask you to accept certain issues as 
fact under the current technologies. Believe me when I say that I have been 
around this bush more times that I care to remember. It is a square circle. 
If there was a better, free and open solution out there, I would be the first 
to announce and probably adopt it myself. Fact is there is not, but this is 
not to say there will never be, I continue to monitor. One of my monthly 
rituals is to catchup on all the XML stuff I can, particularly in the space 
of authoring, document and content management.

For now I think you need to find a process and toolchain that works for you 
and in the interest of becoming a productive contributor to the documentation 
projects, start writing. I can see the subject is close to you and you are 
passionate about it, so is the case with me, so visit this issue at a steady 
frequency. In the interim you will find that you have learned much more about 
the problems that need to be addressed and, who knows, you may discover a 
solution that millions of intellectual geniuses have overlooked.

 
Volker Bernhard Duetsch made a good suggestion to use APT
[http://www.xmlmind.com/aptconvert.html] see if this process will work for 
you. It does work for many people I know. Personally, I preffer to go 
directly into the source format of storage and so obviate the need for 
additional processing and updates. Take into consideration that working in 
the APT method is only good one way. Once you commit, authors will hack only 
the XML you obtained from your APT. In which case you may find yourself 
updating your APT source more than you would like in order to keep it in 
sync.

Later, hope this helps.

-- 
Sean Wheller
Technical Author
sean at inwords.co.za
084-854-9408
http://www.inwords.co.za
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