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Re: How to translate HTML to DocBook
- From: Andrew Westcombe <asw at getsystems dot com>
- To: Patrick Hartling <patrick at vrac dot iastate dot edu>,docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:53:12 +1100
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: How to translate HTML to DocBook
- References: <20020312210028Z684242-9966+600@mail.centrum.cz>
At 05:00 PM 12/03/2002 -0600, Patrick Hartling wrote:
>I have had some success with html2db
>(http://freshmeat.net/projects/html2db/), though it is not perfect. The
>main problem I had is that HTML is not as expressive as DocBook, so the
>translation can only go so far. It also helps if the source is "good"
>HTML. Having closing tags such as </li>, </p>, and </br> helps immensely.
I've used DocParse myself, it's not bad, and very good value. As for having
"good" HTML, Dreamweaver has a very nice command for stripping out junk,
esp. from former MSWord files.
Cheers
Andrew Westcombe
Documentation Manager
Gaming and Entertainment Technology (GET)
ph 02-9419-2000 email: asw@getsystems.com
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