[Vim-latex-devel] Docbook 2 vim-help

[Srinath A. <sr...@ee...>]

Hello,

I just finished the first draft of a python program which is capable of
converting a docbook xml file into a text file in vim-help format. As of
now, it only supports a very limited set of tags. Only those which
latex-suite needs as of now.

As some of you might know, this was to enable writing all of the
documentation for the vim-latex project in xml so it could be easily
converted into a variety of formats.

For a sample:

XML file:
http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/tutorial/latex-suite.xml

HTML file:
http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/tutorial/latex-suite.xml

chunked HTML file:
http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/tutorial/latex-suite/index.html

and finally, the vim-help file:
http://vim-latex.sourceforge.net/tutorial/latex-suite.txt

And the python program db2vim can be downloaded via anonymous cvs from
sourceforge.net using:

cvs -d:pserver:ano...@vi...:/cvsroot/vim-latex login
cvs -d:pserver:ano...@vi...:/cvsroot/vim-latex co db2vim

Running db2vim is simple:

$ db2vim file.xml

where file.xml has to be docbook xml variety. Any tags which db2vim does
not understand will be ignored. There are no style-sheets needed.

Please contact me if you are interested in extending this to more
docbook tags. I am sure the tex-refs project uses a rich set of tags...
As of now, I do not think I will have too much time to devote to this,
although I will gladly help whoever is willing to extend this.

You will need python 2.2 with xml.dom and xml.dom.minidom packages
installed. Activestate python works well for windows.

Thanks!

Srinath