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PROGRAM:
NAME
docbook2texi-spec.pl - convert DocBook Booksto Texinfo documents
SYNOPSIS
sgmlspl docbook2man-spec.pl
nsgmls [ sgml document ]| sgmlspl docbook2texi-spec.pl [ basename ]
DESCRIPTION
docbook2texi is a sgmlspl spec file that produces GNU Texinfo documents from DocBook
documents.
The program reads ESIS produced by nsgmls (or other SGML parsers) from standard input.
Currently the document element must be Book, otherwise the results are undefined.
Its output, the converted Texinfo document, is written to standard output.
The file basename.refs will also be created, which contains all the nodes in the document
and their immediate 'child' nodes. As node processing always require forward references,
docbook2texi must be run twice for each document: the first time to build the references,
and the second to actually generate a valid document.
REQUIREMENTS
The SGMLSpm package from CPAN. This package includes the sgmlspl script that is also
needed.
LIMITATIONS
Trying docbook2man on non-DocBook or non-conformant SGML results in undefined behavior.
:-)
This program is a slow, dodgy Perl script.
This program does not come close to supporting all the possible markup in DocBook, and may
produce wrong output in some cases with supported markup.
TO DO
· How the hell do you represent a backslash (\) in Texinfo!!@? I've tried \\ but TeX
complains about it.
· Fix breakages found in the test documents.
· Add new element handling and fix existing handling. Be robust.
· Make it faster. I think most of the speed problems so far is with parsing ESIS. Rewrite
SGMLS.pm with C and/or get input directly from SP.
· There are some dependencies on elements occurring when they are actually optional
(according to the DTD). We need to fix that (preferably) or prominently state the
requirements.
· Allow other more common document elements.
· Separate out node referencing to a separate script. Not only would it make it
faster/easier to maintain because it's separate from the main code, but also I would
like it to evolve into an automatic DocBook ToC generator.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1998-1999 Steve Cheng <[email protected]>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program;
see the file COPYING. If not, please write to the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave,
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
29 October 2012 DOCBOOK2TEXI-SPEC.PL(1)
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