Re: [docbook-apps] Any advice on transforming XHTML to DocBook?

[Mark Johnson <mrj at debian dot org>]

Hi Patrick,

You could try the 'html2db' tool:

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ppadala/tidy/

Of course, you'll still have to do some cleanup afterwards, but it's a 
step in the right direction.

Cheers,
Mark


Patrick Tinley wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> would anyone have any pointers about transforming XHTML files to DocBook.
> I have a lot of HTML files containing content that we want to reuse in 
> PDFs.
>
> I'd like to be able to produce a fairly high quality manual with this 
> stuff.
> Therefore its not enough to use Acrobat 6 to make a PDF from the 
> collection of files.
>
> I'm thinking DocBook because I could choose to either bring it into Adobe 
> Framemaker and format it there or possible use XSL FO to PDF.
>
> I have not found any discussions on this topic anywhere -- guess everyone 
> else is going the other way.
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
>
> thanks,
> Patrick
>
>
>
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