Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] [Fwd: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Converting from DocBook/SGML to DocBook/X

Note: This archive is from the project's previous web site, ethereal.com. This list is no longer active.

Date Index Thread Index Other Months All Mailing Lists
Date Prev Date Next Thread Prev Thread Next
From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:07:25 +0930
-------- Original Message --------


Aha, one I'm finally qualified to answer...

Changing the header might be enough.  It depends on your SGML.  XML
enforces closing of tags that might not have been enforced in SGML.  It
is also case sensitive, so if you have any old DocBook with Capitalized
tags or even ALLCAPS tags, you'll have to convert those.

The biggest document I've converted (~200 pages) so far, took me about
two hours to track down all the various issues.  While some of my
smaller docs were finished in 5 minutes.

The most consistent problem I found was that my <imagedata ...> tags
needed to be closed.

Richard Sharpe wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What is involved in converting from DocBook/SGML to DocBook/XML? Just
> the header, or is there more serious work?

                                   --
                      Joe Cooper <joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
                  Affordable Web Caching Proxy Appliances
                         http://www.swelltech.com


--
Richard Sharpe, rsharpe@xxxxxxxxxx, LPIC1
www.samba.org, www.ethereal.com, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba
in 24 Hours, Special Edition, Using Samba