Re: DocBook in ConTeXt - any new ideas?

[Bruce <bdarcus.lists@gmail.com>]

Hans Hagen <pragma <at> wxs.nl> writes:

> 
> On 2-6-2011 12:53, Piotr Kopszak wrote:
> > Many thanks for your reply! I would certainly go this way having a
> > couple of months or a year perspective. Besides I'm eager to try
> > finally the new way mkIV deals with xml. But realistically, preparing
> > and testing a mapping of  even a subset of DocBook is a question of at
> > least a couple of personmonths if not worse. Sadly, I'm not in a
> > position to that now.
> 
> Months? I never had a reason for doing a docbook mapping but a couple of 
> hours should get you a start. Th eonly reason why I'd look into docbook 
> is if I'd need in in a project. (I'd happily spent a few well paid 
> months on it then.)
> 
> You probably don't need all of docbook, so you could start with some 
> simple tests. The mkii docbook stuff you mentioned definitely is doing a 
> small subset.

I never understand why you would try to typeset XML directly in ConTeXt? 
Why not just convert the DocBook to ConTeXt source using XSLT (or if the 
docs are simpler, use markdown with pandoc and you can easily get ConTeXt 
and HTML from the same source)?

Bruce

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