You might have a look at: http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net/
David
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wolfgang haefelinger [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:03 AM
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> Subject: [docbook] DocBook - a success story?
>
> Hello,
>
> I have now worked a "bit" with DocBook. The goal of my
> internal project was to have my CV in as many formats as
> possible. I assume that many of you would choose OpenOffice
> for this task since it offers a lot of "export" filters.
> However, working with OpenOffice is nothing for me. It simply
> drives me crazy :-)
>
> So I used DocBook.
>
> Here's a summary of my experience:
> 1. DocBook is fine to eventually create PDF. I used dblatex
> which made it easy for me to customize the look and feel of
> the final document (via providing my own 'vitae' style).
>
> 2. DocBook is probably also fine to create (X)HTML. I did not
> give it a try cause I consider generating HTML obsolete cause
> most web content is generated nowadays by using some simle
> markup languages
>
> 3. Rendering my CV as man page would have been fun but it did
> not work cause I'm using the "wrong" docbook format (i.e.
> "article"). There a lot of tools which claim to render a
> DocBook source into a man page.
> They all only render a subset of DocBook only ..
>
> 4. I wrote my own "DocBook to Plain text" XSLT stylesheet in
> a couple of hours work.
>
> 5. Then I tried to import DocBook into OpenOffice. A complete
> disaster.
>
> 6. Meanwhile I wrote an article in Wikipedia. DocBook to Wikipedia
> (Markup) went fine by changing my "plain text" XSLT sheet.
> However, the other way round (which I consider equally
> important) cause me many problems and is not sufficiently
> solved by now.
>
> 7. When I updated my CV I run into the problem that I got
> lost in all those xml-tags everywhere. Well, this is the old
> XML problem anyway..
> Then I discovered Asciidoc with a simple while effective
> markup language. There is also an export function to DocBook (4.x).
>
> So my chain is
>
> |=====> PDF
> Asciidoc ==> DocBook ===|
> |=====> TEXT
>
> That's, eh .. 4 formats.
>
>
> So, in all honesty: DocBook is not a success story for me.
>
> Greetz,
> Wolfgang.
>
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> Wolfgang H輎elinger
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