Subject: DocBook SGML: Thanks and a question
From: Randy Kramer (rhkramer@fast.net)
Date: Sun Oct 15 2000 - 10:21:53 CDT
My thanks to Sam Tobin-Hochstadt and Dom Lachowicz for the support of
DocBook (SGML) import and export!
I would like to post most of the text of this message to ldp-discuss,
ldp-docbook, and abiword-user, but I thought I'd run it by abiword-dev
first to make sure I did not make any major misstatements.
If I hear no objections or comments within the next few days, I will
send it to those mailing lists.
"Hello. Sorry for the mega cross mailing. I thought this would be of
interest to all four mailing lists.
AbiWord now has the ability to import and export DocBook SGML. I don't
think the AbiWord folks would claim that it's perfect, they probably
consider it somewhat experimental.
My thanks to Sam Tobin-Hochstadt and Dom Lachowicz!
DocBook import and export is not part of the latest release (AbiWord
0.7.11) but is on the development tree. Sam makes nightly Linux builds
and source tarballs available on his home page, which is
www.abisource.com/~sam.
I'm downloading the nightly build for Linux from yesterday, so I'll try
to see what happens. (As a Linux newbie, I may have difficulties
unrelated to AbiWord.)
The following are three notes from the abiword-dev mailing list which
may give some additional insight to the status.
For anyone who is not familiar with AbiWord, it is an open-source,
cross-platform WYSIWYG word processor. Its' native format is XML. It
is currently "supported" on Windows, Linux (and Unix variants), and
BeOs.
Randy Kramer
Subject:
commit -- DocBook exporter
Date:
Sat, 14 Oct 2000 05:03:11 -0500 (CDT)
From:
sam th <sam@uchicago.edu>
To:
abiword-dev@abisource.com
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I've committed the DocBook exporter that I wrote back in January. It
seems to work (although SGMLTools doesn't treat it properly). Bang on
it, add features, add features to AbiWord to use the DocBook tags,
etc. :-)
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
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Subject:
Patch: Provisional Docbook import
Date:
Sat, 14 Oct 2000 22:02:03 EDT
From:
"Dom Lachowicz" <cinamod@hotmail.com>
To:
abiword-dev@abisource.com
CC:
patches@abisource.com
This patch lets you import the docbook tags that Sam's exporter exports,
that is, after you remove the comments from the doc :) I have to read up
more about what exactly the differences between SGML and XML are
(besides
XML being a SGML derivate). Importing DocBook would be very useful, IMO.
Here's an initial stab at it.
Comments and suggestions are appreciated. If you'd like me to add this
to
the tree, I'll be more than happy to.
Dom
Subject:
Re: Patch: Provisional Docbook import
Date:
Sat, 14 Oct 2000 23:19:16 -0500 (CDT)
From:
sam th <sam@uchicago.edu>
To:
Dom Lachowicz <cinamod@hotmail.com>
CC:
abiword-dev@abisource.com
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On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> This patch lets you import the docbook tags that Sam's exporter exports,
> that is, after you remove the comments from the doc :) I have to read up
> more about what exactly the differences between SGML and XML are (besides
> XML being a SGML derivate). Importing DocBook would be very useful, IMO.
> Here's an initial stab at it.
>
> Comments and suggestions are appreciated. If you'd like me to add this to
> the tree, I'll be more than happy to.
I've committed this, along with a fix to remove the bug you
mentioned. The problem was I had been closing the comments with --!>,
as
opposed to the correct -->. Gotta hate that asymettry. Also gotta hate
checking in code you wrote ten months ago without checking it
sufficently. But it works now.
And just for the record, I have a hat here, along with some ketchup, in
case any one finds any other word processors that round trip in DocBook
format.
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://www.abisource.com/~sam/
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