DocBook and OpenOffice

["Colin Shapiro" <cmshapiro@gmail.com>]

Hi all,

I'm looking to use OpenOffice Writer as a temporary editor for DocBook documents.  Basically, I need to allow certain people to edit DocBook documents who have never worked with markup languages before, but are familiar with OpenOffice.

I've played around with OpenOffice's built-in DocBook support in the past with only partial success.  I am guessing that the best way is to write a couple of stylesheets to transform DocBook to/from the OpenDocument format.  I don't need full interoperability, because I plan on cleaning up the end results myself before publishing.

I've looked at the OpenDocument format and I'm pretty confident that I can write stylesheets to get the basic transformations that I need.  However, this will take time I'd rather not spend if I don't have to.  Has anyone else done something like this?  I've Googled a bit but haven't found anything usable.

Colin