[KLUG Members] DocBook, AbiWord XML Export and XSL Stylesheet Application ...

[Adam Williams]

>First off, does anyone have DocBook experience here?  What's the best
>way to create DocBook?  I'd like an editor that has auto-spelling
>correct and a few other goodies -- like Gnome-enabled programs like
>AbiWord and Evolution's message composer do.

I understand the merits of DocBook & DSSSL,  but find attempting to use
them bewildering.  A nice intro/howto is deperately needed.

>In any case, OpenJade and TeX seem to make up a lot of the tools.

Ick, in both cases, from a user stand point anyway.

>I've tried exporting a simple AbiWord document as DocBook which seems to
>be DocBook XML 4.1.2.  I haven't had much luck in applying stylesheets.
>I've tried "xmlto", "xsltproc" as well as "docbook2*" (SGML/OpenJade)
>and "openjade" (directly), passing both DSSSL (docbook.dsl) and XSL 
>(docbook.xsl) sheets to convert to HTML, Jade (print), PDF, etc...

Yes, I've never been able to produce anything resembling a document.

Someone should ***REALLY**** do a presentation on all this gunk.  Maybe
"DocBook de-Gunked"