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Gavin Henry gavin.henry at magicfx.co.uk
Wed Jun 9 16:29:19 UTC 2004


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On Tuesday 08 Jun 2004 01:15, Karsten Wade wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 15:17, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Is there a possibility to just write the content and
> > submit it instead of doing it in docbook itself?
>
> There have been offers here to help with XML generation.  There are
> tools to convert from just about any format, even if it takes multiple
> steps such as .doc -> .txt -> .xml.

I want to turn all my day jobs .docs to xml 

Is this easy enough?

>
> This page has several good ones:
>
> http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/ConvertOtherFormatsToDocBook
>
> Ones I have used:
>
> http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/
> http://txt2docbook.sourceforge.net/
> http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ppadala/tidy/
>
> The last one does a nice job of converting (X)HTML to XML, except for
> nasty tables.
>
> If someone writes a seriously good HOWTO or tutorial and submits it as
> material, there is a good chance someone else will jump in to help
> convert.  This will work for now.
>
> - Karsten
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Kind Regards,
Gavin Henry.

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