Re: [docbook-apps] A little XML-to-XML handholding?
Hi Mike,
we have done exactly this for an author like you who is publishing
project management books:
http://www.nicolaiandler.com/books/tools-for-coaching-leadership-and-change-management/
Hi is now authoring his books in DocBook and will publish them in
ebook and PDF.
All this is done thanks to our XML CMS Calenco
(http://www.calenco.com). Note that the HTML to DocBook import
function is only available in the proprietary version, not the
Free one available on the WebSite.
Another Publisher using Calenco: http://www.d-booker.fr/
HTH, do not hesitate contacting me for further details.
NeoDoc
Camille
Bégnis
Tél: +33
(0)4.42.52.24.20
5, rue de la Touloubre
13770
Venelles
France
http://www.neodoc.fr/
On 28/07/2013 03:18, Michael Crawford wrote:
Greetings, Earthlings,
I have some articles and essays that
are all marked up with valid XHTML
1.0 Strict with CSS, that I would
like to publish as bound, dead-tree
books, possibly also eBooks.
It seems to me that the best way to do
that would be to convert each
collection of essays into a single
DocBook XML document. Can you give me
some tips on how to get started? I'm
happy to Read The Fine Manual, but
there are so many.
One such volume, when printed both-sides
on US Letter paper, is ~250 pages. The
essays range from two to fifty pages.
What I _think_ I need to do is to use some
manner of XML-to-XML transformation, to
strip everything from the beginning of
each document, up to and including the
opening <body>, then from the
closing </body>, to the end of each
document....
... then concatenate them all together,
with each present XHTML document being a
single chapter in the resulting DocBook
document...
... then replace HTML-style tags and
attributes with DocBook-style: <p> to
<Para>, for example...
... what would be for me, A Killer Feature,
would be to convert each HTML <a
href=""> hyperlink into a DocBook
footnote. So where I have this:
===========
a long-forgotten <a href=""true"
href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/">http://www.kuro5hin.org/">cesspool</a>
in a far-off corner of the World-Wide Web...
===========
would look something like this in hardcopy form:
a long-forgotten cesspool[1] in a far-off corner of
the World-Wide Web...
----
1. http://www.kuro5hin.org/
=========
I'd also like to design my own custom stylesheets. I'll
ask about that later though. I have a copy of "Android
Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide" by Bill Phillips
and Brian Hardy. In the Acknowledgements, the authors
credit Chris Loper of http://www.intelligentenglish.com/
for his DocBook toolchain.
That volume is exquisite. I'd like to design my own
volume, not to look the same, but to look as good, with my
own personal style.
Thanks for any advice you can give me.
Mike Crawford
http://www.warplife.com/