From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/68868 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: DocBook in ConTeXt - any new ideas? Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 17:17:51 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4DE77C02.50002@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1307035100 17143 80.91.229.12 (2 Jun 2011 17:18:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 17:18:20 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jun 02 19:18:15 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QSBXC-0008Vo-UW for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:18:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90C76CAD6A; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 19:18:14 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 2n-yIIHL1rjj; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 19:18:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC693CAD5D; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 19:18:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1852CAD5D for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 19:18:10 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id oF94ONu4HqzZ for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 19:18:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter2-nij.mf.surf.net (filter2-nij.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.153]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4C83CAD5C for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 19:18:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by filter2-nij.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p52GdiNQ006089 for ; Thu, 2 Jun 2011 18:39:45 +0200 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QSBX0-0008Oo-6K for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:18:04 +0200 Original-Received: from cpe-69-133-124-182.woh.res.rr.com ([69.133.124.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:18:02 +0200 Original-Received: from bdarcus.lists by cpe-69-133-124-182.woh.res.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:18:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 69.133.124.182 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.71 Safari/534.24) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=80.91.229.12; country=NO; latitude=62.0000; longitude=10.0000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=62.0000,10.0000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0aEP4DIrP - 6d635bdbbed9 - 20110602 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.153 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:68868 Archived-At: Hans Hagen 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________