Re: [docbook] docbook to RSS

[Gerard Nicol <gerard.nicol@gazillabyte.com>]

I have a program that does this and it also ties into make and visual studio. 

I use it to append change notes to the end of my man pages which are in docbook. 

It outputs natively to RSS as a cgi program too. 

If you're interested I'm happy to share. 

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> On Jul 18, 2015, at 12:42 PM, Aristedes Maniatis <ari@ish.com.au> wrote:
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> I'm wanting to write release notes for our product in docbook. We already have very successful docbook tooling around the manual, so it makes sense to pull this in as well.
> 
> My goals are to create nice looking webpages (here is our existing docbook output [1]) and also a RSS feed. So I was thinking that semantically it would be preferable to not just have sections/chapters, but something that we could transform to RSS more precisely.
> 
> I looked at the <revision> element, but <revdescription> doesn't support sections, subheadings, etc. and by default <revision> all wants to print on the title page, doesn't generate TOC, etc. So I'd have a lot of customising to do.
> 
> * Has anyone tried to do this?
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> * What is the current state of <revision> for the purpose of versioning things other than the docbook content itself?
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> * Is there any XSLT for creating RSS from docbook content? I see something in the docbook-website project but the sourceforge pages are down and I don't really understand how docbook-website works.
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> * how does the docbook project itself produce release notes?
> 
> 
> Thanks for any help
> Ari Maniatis
> 
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> [1] http://www.ish.com.au/s/onCourse/doc/latest/manual/
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