Re: DOCBOOK: converting to docbook

[Pradeep Padala <ppadala@cise.ufl.edu>]

> Were you ever successful in beautifying DocBook XML documents (or any
> other XML document) by using tidy? I wasn't! :-(
>
> I tried the last CVS version of tidy (on WinNT), adopted the config
> files to let tidy know about specific markup... . No chance! I get a
> lot of superfluous empty lines after inline markup ... inline isn't
> anymore inline ...

Yep, Tidy doesn't do a great job.

> Is tidy supposed to work correctly on arbitrary XML files? Perhaps
> you can send me such a DocBook specific config file (if you have
> one)? That would be very decent of you.

Yes I have one. Have to find it. It's a dirty hack. Will send you
later.

--pradeep