Re: OpenOffice to DocBook
| From: | Arnaud Limbourg | Date: | Wed, 07 Aug 2002 22:33:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: OpenOffice to DocBook | ||
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> I still think that the topic is left to be discussed.
> After reading the article
> http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/02/07/openoffice.html?page=2
> and writing a tool for importing data from a specific web application
> into an OO-document I have to come back to the topic about writing
> PEAR-Doc or converting it from any format to docbook.
> I got a tiny glimps into the structure of the OO-XML file and they are
> (kinda) HTML-like. So I still think a tool which converts OO to DocBook
> makes more sense then one from HTML. What do we have XML for? I surely
> could write one, and when i find the time i will (but i will have to
> learn docbook b4 :-( ).
> And even the conversion from a OO-document to PDF or whatever is much
> easier, so i think this might be a way to go, not only for the pear-doc.
> I am curious about opinions. What do you think?
From what I understand here it makes sense to me to go towards that solution. It would be nicer to
write doc in OpenOffice than typing xml or whatever into vi, right ? (maybe I'm completely off
here so indulge me).
Arnaud.