Re: DOCBOOK: Manpages in Linux

[Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 04:18:05AM +0000, Karif Battle wrote:

> The Company has decided to use DocBooks and XML.
> 
> Problems:
> 
> The docbook2man utility does not handle XML properly.

Indeed: for nroff output from XML, better to use db2man, an improved
version of which is included in the xmlto RPM package.  See
http://cyberelk.net/tim/docbook/ for pointers to the packages you
need.

> DocBook XML is poorly documented and it is hard to find samples.

Did you look at the 'Project Documentation' link on the DocBook Open
Repository sourceforge.net site?

http://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=21935

(For samples in particular, you might find the Selfdocbook useful;
there is a link on that page.)

Tim.
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