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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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