Re: DocBook

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 12:26 PM 12/30/2001 +0100, Simon Pepping wrote:
>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.

starting from a subset is doable; is there such a subset known? a quick 
look into the oreilly's docbook book shows a lot of (probably never used) 
stuff,

Hans
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