Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Converting from DocBook/SGML to DocBook/XML

[David Härdeman <david@2gen.com>]

I've done it on some documents and it's really easy, only things that I found to be different the first time was:

1) all tags are in lowercase
2) empty elements are written as <tag/>

I'd browse trough <http://www.docbook.org/tdg/html/ch02.html#d44e3057> for more info if I were you, then add the xml header and run it trough a xslt engine or xml parser and it should tell you what (if anything) is wrong with your document. All the conversions I've done have been 10 minutes of work.

HTH,
David

On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 03:59:15PM +0930, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What is involved in converting from DocBook/SGML to DocBook/XML? Just 
> the header, or is there more serious work?
> 
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