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Re: Converting from DocBook/SGML to DocBook/XML
- To: Joe Cooper <joe at swelltech dot com>
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Converting from DocBook/SGML to DocBook/XML
- From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe at ns dot aus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:06:16 +0930
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
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- Reply-to: rsharpe at ns dot aus dot com
Joe Cooper wrote:
> 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.
Hmmm, OK, I think I will be OK, except for <graphic ...> tags ... I
think I always use lower case tags, and close everything, except
<graphic ...> tags.
> 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:
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