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Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Working with CVS
Dmitry, > The point is that I want to edit XML files on CVS and then be able to > convert them to HTML (and possibly PDF) under Linux. How can I do > that? We do precisely that. Pretty much *all* of our documents are written in either DocBook SGML or DocBook XML and *all* of them are stored in CVS for revision control. Some time ago, I wrote up the process we use at: http://www.e-smith.org/docs/docprocess.html I have been doing more and more with XML these days, so that page may be dated, but it shows you one way that you can work with it. > What software I need to install on CVS server to complete the > task? I am a newbie actually and I would be grateful if you give me a As far as CVS, there is nothing you need to do. Install it on a server. Have authors check out a local working copy on their systems. Have them start adding and committing documents. That's it. If you want to go the extra step Godoy mentions and have post-commit scripts that validate the XML, that's cool, too. I haven't needed to do that as there are only a couple of us who work on our docs, and we have our systems down (that include validating before committing). FYI, for LinuxWorld this past August in San Francisco, I gave a talk on CVS (written in DocBook XML using Norm's Slides doctype) that does have some intro material. It can be found at: http://www.lodestar2.com/people/dyork/talks/cvs/ (although... sigh... I note that I haven't uploaded the version that I did at LW that had a few minor tweaks... someday...) As someone else mentioned, all the CVS info you could want is off of http://www.cvshome.org/ I also point people to the online version of the Coriolis CVS book at http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/ Regards, Dan -- Dan York, Director of Training dyork@e-smith.com Ph: +1-613-751-4401 Cell: +1-613-263-4312 Fax: +1-613-564-7739 Mitel Network Corporation Network Server Solutions Group 150 Metcalfe St., Suite 1500, Ottawa,ON K2P 1P1 Canada http://www.e-smith.com/ http://www.mitel.com/
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