[O] Still trying to get DocBook output

[Peter Davis]

Since DocBook XML is not supported by the new org-mode export architecture, I tried following the recommendation here:

http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/ox-overview.html

exporting to texi and then using makeinfo to convert to DocBook XML. This worked reasonably smoothly, though it still required some hand editing. In particular, there are a number of constructs that seem to be completely different in org->makeinfo generated XML vs. the DocBook XML my team is using. I'm not sure this is exhaustive, but here's what I've found so far:

Effect	MakeInfo XML output	Desired DocBook XML
id strings	Mixed_Case_Section_Title	XXXX_lower_case_section_title
chapter, sect labels	label="n.n"	n/a
Code example	<screen>...</screen>	<programlisting>...</programlisting>
Graphic	<informalfigure>  <mediaobject>   <imageobject>    <imagedata fileref="..." format="..."></imagedata>   </imageobject>  </mediaobject> </informalfigure>	<para><graphic fileref="..." format="..."/><para>
Definition list	<variablelist>  <varlistentry>   <term>...</term>   <listitem>    <para>...</para>   </listitem>  </varlistentry>  ... </variablelist>	<glosslist>  <glossentry>   <glossterm>...</glossterm>   <glossdef><para>...</para></glossdef>  </glossentry>  ... </glosslist>

I hope this HTML table comes through.

I'm assuming I could create a fairly simple XSLT script to convert the makeinfo output to the desired XML, but I'm wondering if there's a way to pass a stylefile, DTD or schema to makeinfo to do this automatically. Anyone know?

I looked at the help for makeinfo, but didn't see anything I recognized as a way to do this.

Thanks,

-pd

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