Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: writing a condensed form of docbook

[Markus Spath <mspath@arcor.de>]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   i like to write my documents and manuals in condensed
> form, and it would be nice to quickly to go from that to 
> final docbook.
> 

Since you stay with the xml-syntax anyway I'd say XSLT would be a convenient 
way; all you need is a styl3sheet containing an identity template and templates 
matching your abbreviations

(
<xsl:template match="@* | node()">
   <xsl:copy><xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()" /></xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="li">	
   <listitem><para><xsl:apply-templates /></para></listitem>
</xsl:template>
...
)

markus