Re: DocBook

[Simon Pepping <spepping@scaprea.hobby.nl>]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 09:13:41PM +0100, Berend de Boer wrote:
> Marco Kuhlmann <marco.kuhlmann@gmx.net> writes:
> 
> > > Is anybody working on DocBook support in ConTeXt?
> > 
> > No, not yet. But I definitely need it. Perhaps we can unite?
> 
> Me too.
> 
> 
> > With the enhanced XML support of ConTeXt, a ConTeXt interface
> > for DocBook does not seem totally out of reach. :-)
> 
> Just my idea.
> 
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 00:01:49AM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
> Concerning docbook ... i must admit that i have the book here but never 
> looked into it. Supporting such a (big) dtd is possible, but i think we 
> must implement it stepwise. better here and there extend context than start 
> hacking around. So, if those interested want to make a start .... i can 
> always clean up the code afterwards -)

The idea has crossed my mind as well. Docbook has become the standard
for all sorts of technical documentation, and it would be nice if such
documentation could be formatted using Context. But it is a huge
undertaking indeed. One should start on a subset, there should be
agreement on which subset, and one should be prepared for a long
lasting project.

In a sense it would be a duplication of the XSLT stylesheets for
docbook. An alternative is implementing FOs in Context, which would
work for any DTD.

-- 
Simon Pepping
email: spepping@scaprea.hobby.nl