Converting to Docbook format.

[Carlton Gibson]

Hi all,

(Having lurked for an age...)

Does anybody know of a decent set of MMD to DocBook stylesheets?

Thanks,
Carlton

[signinstranger]

On Sep 25, 12:46 pm, Carlton Gibson <carlton.gib...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anybody know of a decent set of MMD to DocBook stylesheets?

I would try my luck with Pandoc[^1]. DocBook uses a hierarchical XML
format, which is very difficult to produce from MMD's flat XHTML
structure.


[^1]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

[Carlton Gibson]

Brilliant, thanks. I will give that a go.

[signinstranger]

On Sep 25, 2:39 pm, Carlton Gibson <carlton.gib...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > [^1]:http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
>
> Brilliant, thanks. I will give that a go.

Oh, maybe I should add that during the installation process under Mac
OS X, you will also need of a copy of Paul Wilson's "The Little Book
of Calm" within reach. ;-)

[Fletcher T. Penney]

By "hierarchical" vs "flat", do you mean in reference to
chapters/sections/etc?

You're correct that these are sister elements in MMD produced XHTML,
rather than parent-child elements. But XSLT is perfectly capable of
handling these and converting between the two. Several of my XSLT files
produce hierarchical output.

I have not installed haskell, and therefore have not used Pandoc. I
don't believe it replicates all of the syntax of MMD, but depending on
what features you need it is probably a viable option.

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[signinstranger]

On Sep 25, 6:39 pm, "Fletcher T. Penney" <fletcher.pen...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> By "hierarchical" vs "flat", do you mean in reference to
> chapters/sections/etc?
>
> You're correct that these are sister elements in MMD produced XHTML,
> rather than parent-child elements.  But XSLT is perfectly capable of
> handling these and converting between the two.  Several of my XSLT files
> produce hierarchical output.

Sorry, I exaggerated the problem. There already are some XHTML-to-
DocBook
stylesheets available, so it can be done. But Pandoc does a good job,
if
you get it installed (and that's a big IF)

[Carlton Gibson]

On 25 Sep 2009, at 17:39, Fletcher T. Penney wrote:

> By "hierarchical" vs "flat", do you mean in reference to chapters/
> sections/etc?
>
> You're correct that these are sister elements in MMD produced XHTML,
> rather than parent-child elements. But XSLT is perfectly capable of
> handling these and converting between the two. Several of my XSLT
> files produce hierarchical output.

Thanks for the input. I will look at the existing stylesheets and
think about modifying them.

My situation is just that I'm learning Docbook (which appears to be
_expansive_ rather than _difficult_ per se). As such I'm after
something that will get me started -- I can come back to create my own
stylesheets later :-)

An existing XHTML to Docboom stylesheet would be perfect but failing
that I'll give Pandoc a try. (I'm thinking the Ubuntu package may be
the way to go...)

thanks again,
Carlton