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Bug 27998

Summary: DocBook support
Product: xml Reporter: _ lkramolis <lkramolis>
Component: CodeAssignee: issues@xml <issues>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: blocker    
Priority: P4    
Version: 3.x   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on: 22160, 22152, 22789    
Bug Blocks:    

Description _ lkramolis 2002-10-14 17:31:50 UTC
* DocBook-DataLoader|DataObject|DataNode,
templates (wizard).

* Mounted DocBook DTDs - provides code completion.

* DocBook specific Scenarios (db2txt, db2html,
db2pdf, ...).

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Links:
    http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/
    http://docbook.sourceforge.net/
Comment 1 _ tboudreau 2002-10-14 18:20:37 UTC
Well, I'd have a whole host of suggestions for a UI - such as:
 - An editor with a tree view of the document docked into it, so
   that you can select a subelement and only see the text of that
   subelement (filtering out trivial tags like <para> but exposing
   document sections like section or chapter, etc.
 - Ability to define a subset of the dtd available for code 
   completion (docbook is huge and contains tons of tags only
   useful if you're writing a particular type of document)
 - Integration with Apache FOP or the Docbook XSLT stuff so
   that you can "compile" an html or pdf build of the book
   (Jesse already did this - see the build tasks he wrote if
   you still have a checkout of the ftp copy of the book 
   sources)
 - A UI for defining that subset
 - Some kind of floating palette allowing you to quickly 
   wrap a section of text in some kind of tags

And, well, I can think of lots more things, but this is probably
already more than you wanted to hear!

-Tim
Comment 2 Jesse Glick 2005-01-13 18:09:30 UTC
There is an elementary DocBook support module in contrib.