Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: How to translate HTML to DocBook

[Patrick Hartling <patrick@vrac.iastate.edu>]

dbook@centrum.cz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I need to translate many HTML sources to DocBook markups. Do you 
> know some utility, which can provide it? I read something about 
> DynaTag, but it seems that I must define here conversion rules. 
> Do you know something "full-automatic"?
> 
> Thank you. 
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I have had some success with html2db 
(http://freshmeat.net/projects/html2db/), though it is not perfect.  The 
main problem I had is that HTML is not as expressive as DocBook, so the 
translation can only go so far.  It also helps if the source is "good" 
HTML.  Having closing tags such as </li>, </p>, and </br> helps immensely.

Beyond any limitations of HTML, one thing to keep in mind is that html2db 
uses DSSSL.  Its output is thus based on the DocBook SGML DTD rather than 
the XML DTD.  sgmlnorm and sgml2xml come in handy if you want to go to XML.

  -Patrick


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