[Firebird-docs] OOo and DocBook (was: A how-to on...)

[Paul V. <pa...@vi...>]

Hi Helen,

> You also need to get the three XSLT files.  Actually, this link is
> better to cover fully what you need to do to activate XML filtering
> (as I discovered yesterday after several frustrating hours trying to
> make OO.o 1.1.1 behave as described in the UserGuide.html page).
> It's incredible that they don't have these two pieces together in
> one document!!

> Start here and use method 1:
> http://xml.openoffice.org/xmerge/docbook/

Thanks for finding this out. I did visit that page before but decided
not to follow the instructions because it was for Beta/RC versions.

Installed that stuff now. Yes, it works, but (for me) it's very
counterintuitive. Too used to XXE I guess. Also, if I import and
re-export, or if I make a simple new DocBook file, it sometimes
exports broken DocBook XML.

BTW, to everybody who's going to follow the instructions on that
webpage: under "Creating a new DocBook filter" they swapped the import
and export stylesheets. The correct choices are:
  docbooktosoff* for import
  sofftodocbook* for export


> Paul, I'm working on the converter for the Framemaker xml and I
> really don't think it will be rocket science to write another one
> for reprocessing the OO docbook output, if it's needed.

OK, but let's first see if it's needed :-)
Carlos is sending me revisions now and then (produced with OO) and
they are correct.


Greetings,
Paul Vinkenoog