[Doc-SIG] Docbook output

[Oliver Rutherfurd]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 10:19:12AM -0700, Dethe Elza wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Has any work been done to create DocBook output from reST input?  If
> not, where would I begin if I wanted to tackle such a thing?

Hi,

I just started on a docbook writer yesterday evening. It's probably
about 1/4 done (but I started with all the easy elements ;-). I've
never really used DocBook before, so I'm not very familiar with it,
but I'm just trying to use the html writer as an example, and going
from there.

One question I had was what type of document(s) to generate?

- book
- chapter
- article

It would be nice if all 3 could be generated based on a parameter given
to the writer, but given my lack of experience w/DocBook I don't know
if this is feasible.

Anyway, if I don't stall out or hit any big roadblocks, I'll try to make
something available later this weekend.

-Ollie

> I'm actually interested in three output formats (in addition to XHTML
> and PDF, which appear to be well in hand):
> 
> * DocBook
> * Simplified DocBook
> * XMLspec (the format W3C docs are written in)
> 
> If there's anyone working on this already, how can I help?
> 
> Please cc any reply, as I'm not (yet?) a subscriber to the list.
> 
> TIA
> 
> -Dethe
> 
> 
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