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Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: FYI - my 'makefaq' program now exports DocBook XML
Purely FYI, back in November[1] I released a new version of my 'makefaq' program that exports from its very simple FAQ format into a DocBook XML <qandaset>. I did this mostly because I liked storing a FAQ in makefaq's simple format: <c>General<q>What does the data file look like? <a>A plain text file. Each entry has a category, a question and an answer and can span multiple lines and include HTML. but yet I wanted to generate a PDF file. Now, I know I could have used any of the zillion tools out there that can go from HTML into PDF, but hey, I'll confess to being a DocBook geek and it seemed like it would be simple to do (it was). So now when you type: ./makefaq.py -c DocBookXML you wind up with a DocBook <qandaset> in a file (default file name is'faq-output.xml'). Run it through your favorite XSLT and FO processors and.. ta da.. a PDF file. (or go into whatever other format you want) I just thought I'd mention this... nothing for anybody to do... unless anyone wants to give me any feedback on my <qandaset> output. :-) If you do want to see the program, it's at: http://www.makefaq.org/ Just thought I'd pass along another program using DocBook, Dan [1] Someone just recently pointed out to me that I never really told anyone I had added the DocBook XML export, so now I am. :-) -- Dan York, Product Line Manager, 6000 Managed Application Server Mitel Networks Corporation dan_york@mitel.com Ph: +1-613-592-2122 Cell: +1-613-263-4312 Fax: +1-613-592-1175 350 Legget Drive, Ottawa, ON, K2K 2W7 Canada http://www.mitel.com/smallbusiness/
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