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Re: How to translate HTML to DocBook


On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 09:06:00AM +0100, Michael Wiedmann wrote:
> I posted yesterday on news.easysw.com/htmldoc.general asking whether
> there are some plans to support DocBook as new output format.
> 
> Michael Sweet from Easy Software Products replied:
> 
> "...it is certainly possible but I'm not sure if you would get a 1-to-1 
> mapping (that is, if you used HTMLDOC to index a DocBook file, the output 
> file might not preserve all of the DocBook elements)"

??  Who talks about a 1-to-1 mapping ?  If the "source" is HTML,
there's no 1-to-1 mapping to expect I guess...  The best the converter
could do is IMHO to guess a couple of docbook tags to use, anyway.

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