On Nov 14, 2007 11:46 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > -- > fedora-docs-list mailing list > fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list > Hi Paul, Thanks for the great feedback. I'll have to take a closer look, I have noticed the save to xml/docbook features, but I've never tried them properly ;) As far as XML/XSLT goes, I have no idea so I'd be no help. However, I do know someone who may be interested :) Kind Regards, Murray. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ pub 1024D/81B3FDEB 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18] Key fingerprint = 4ED9 9907 5BF0 4132 2B46 20D1 C0C6 362D 81B3 FDEB Murray McAllister (Fedora Docs Project / mdious) <murray.mcallister@xxxxxxxxx> sub 2048g/B04CFA0C 2007-09-19 [expires: 2008-09-18] -- fedora-docs-list mailing list fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-docs-list
