Here's an xslt that turns revhistory to an atom feed in webhelp output:
https://github.com/stackforge/clouddocs-maven-plugin/blob/master/src/main/resources/cloud/webhelp/revhistory2atom.xsl
Regards,
David
On 7/18/15 5:42 AM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> I'm wanting to write release notes for our product in docbook. We already have very successful docbook tooling around the manual, so it makes sense to pull this in as well.
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> My goals are to create nice looking webpages (here is our existing docbook output [1]) and also a RSS feed. So I was thinking that semantically it would be preferable to not just have sections/chapters, but something that we could transform to RSS more precisely.
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> I looked at the <revision> element, but <revdescription> doesn't support sections, subheadings, etc. and by default <revision> all wants to print on the title page, doesn't generate TOC, etc. So I'd have a lot of customising to do.
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> * Has anyone tried to do this?
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> * What is the current state of <revision> for the purpose of versioning things other than the docbook content itself?
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> * Is there any XSLT for creating RSS from docbook content? I see something in the docbook-website project but the sourceforge pages are down and I don't really understand how docbook-website works.
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> * how does the docbook project itself produce release notes?
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> Thanks for any help
> Ari Maniatis
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> [1] http://www.ish.com.au/s/onCourse/doc/latest/manual/
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