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 <steve@ggi-project.org>
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.