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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: SGML DocBook export filter for KWord
From:       Wolf-Michael Bolle <Bolle () ID-PRO ! de>
Date:       2000-09-28 13:51:47
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Jacques,

> > I don't know, 2 days I think.
>
> This - as usual - "Depends".
>
> Influencing factors include:
>
> a) How much of DocBook will you export to?
> b) Will you be using stylesheets?
> c) Dependent on a) and b), how will you implement frames? Will you
> implement frames at all?
>
> And so on.
>
> Still, shouldn't be *too* difficult to grab the semantic markup.
> Formatting'll be a bugger but semantics not so much. Strikes me as an
> excellent job for Perl and the various Perl *ML parsers.
>
> Certainly if you're successful, there may be a case to adopt DocBook
> as a target for later development (version 2.x or so).

I wasn't really planning anything fancy. The idea behind this is to be
able to write documentation in SGML DocBook format in a nice looking
environment without actutally knowing anything about SGML DocBook.
I want to start out without any stylesheets and *definitly* without
frames. Also, I don't want a filter that is able to create every single
little bit of SGML DocBook. A nice feature though would be to implement
this to work bidirectional, so a cycle of exporting, importing and
exporting again would result in the same file. However, I hadn't really
thought about doing an import filter at the same time but I might get an
approval for that, too.

Michael

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Jacques,
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>> I don't know, 2 days I think.
<p>This - as usual - "Depends".
<p>Influencing factors include:
<p>a) How much of DocBook will you export to?
<br>b) Will you be using stylesheets?
<br>c) Dependent on a) and b), how will you implement frames? Will you
implement frames at all?
<p>And so on.
<p>Still, shouldn't be *too* difficult to grab the semantic markup. Formatting'll
be a bugger but semantics not so much. Strikes me as an excellent job for
Perl and the various Perl *ML parsers.
<p>Certainly if you're successful, there may be a case to adopt DocBook
as a target for later development (version 2.x or so).</blockquote>
I&nbsp;wasn't really planning anything fancy. The idea behind this is to
be able to write documentation in SGML&nbsp;DocBook format in a nice looking
environment without actutally knowing anything about SGML DocBook. I&nbsp;want
to start out without any stylesheets and *definitly*&nbsp;without frames.
Also, I&nbsp;don't want a filter that is able to create every single little
bit of SGML&nbsp;DocBook. A nice feature though would be to implement this
to work bidirectional, so a cycle of exporting, importing and exporting
again would result in the same file. However, I&nbsp;hadn't really thought
about doing an import filter at the same time but I&nbsp;might get an approval
for that, too.
<p>Michael
<p>--
<br><tt><a href="mailto:Wolf-Michael Bolle <Bolle@ID-PRO.de>">Wolf-Michael
Bolle &lt;Bolle@ID-PRO.de></a> (Products &amp; Development)</tt>
<br><tt>* ID-PRO Deutschland GmbH * G.-Heinemann-Ring 135 * D-81739 M&uuml;nchen</tt>
<br><tt>* Tel. +49 (0) 89-67 34 61-64 * Fax -70</tt>
<br><tt>* <a href="http://open-for-the-better.com/">http://open-for-the-better.com</a></tt>
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