On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:48 AM, Maurice Diamantini
Just some remarks/questions: - docbook seems to be the standard for describing documentation data, - dblatex seams to be a currently good supported tools for **easely** provide pdf output from docbook input, and cutomize the output with .xsl parameters or LaTeX .sty files - dbcontext seams not to be maintained very much
I don't think the code in the module is nowadays a good example for writing a module because many low level commands are redefined and it should work now out of the box with the current code or better witth MkIV.
- ConTeXt seams to be able to directly parse xml without external tools
So, what about make ConTeXt directly reading dokbook file and output pdf file? I see the http://www.leverkruid.eu/context/index.html page from Simon Pepping. But it seems that this project is down.
Not many people asked for Docbook support in ConTeXt and I found only three interseting threads in my mail folder. http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2007/026545.html http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2007/025428.html http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2007/025358.html
If ConTeXt provide an easy way for translate docbook to pdf file (usable by a non (ie. not yet) ConTeXt user as dblatex is), I think poeple could switch to ConTeXt only for that feature (not everybody have dependency with LaTeX!)
Then the problem would resume to find a good "yourPreferedWikiFormat" to docbook...
(I'v not seen any "t-bocbook" file on http://dl.contextgarden.net/modules)
The module you mention above is the only (complete?) docbook style but ConTeXt provides cals table support by default and mapping for the basic elements to ConTeXt shouldn't be a problem, give us the information what do you need and we write a module. Greetings Wolfgang