On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 21:17 +1000, Murray McAllister wrote: > Just following up on the survey. I noticed a few people using > OpenOffice - is this because there are some magical XML tools for it? > Just curious, as I've never used Open Office, or considered it, for > Docbook. > > Thanks for the help. OpenOffice.org saves its own files in an XML format (inside a ZIP archive named with a ".od?" extension). OO.o also has XSLT available to save documents as DocBook, but the template is rather limited, and there is no style package to help the user stick with styles that will translate well through the XSLT. In general, you can do OK if you stick only with Heading[123], Body Text, and a couple of the list formats, but it's not really ready for prime time IMHO. Being able to use markup like <command>, <screen>, <package>, <userinput>, <computeroutput>, and <segmentedlist> are pretty important in our docs. The fact that these things are missing is just a matter of elbow grease though. It's not some miraculous programming feat that's needed, just some people who are XML/XSLT friendly and have time to come up with the appropriate transformations. If I'd had the time, I guess I'd have worked on this already, but my XSLT tends to be a *lot* of trial and error. (And error. And error....) -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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