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

[Michael Smith <smith at xml-doc dot org>]

DocBook Doclet has a good set of features and it very actively maintained -

  http://www.dbdoclet.org/

  The DocBook Doclet (dbdoclet) creates DocBook code from Java source
  documentation. ... The standalone application can be used as a converter
  to transform HTML documents to DocBook documents.

Patrick Tinley <patrickt@vistatec.ie> writes:

> 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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