Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Direct DocBook2txt?

[Bob Stayton <bobs@caldera.com>]

On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 10:18:35PM +0200, Tomas Valusek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm an editor of a Czech magazine for blind computer users. I'm working on
> WinXP, and currently almost all articles are written in HTML and converted
> to plain text because of accessibility (some subscribers can't use HTML). I
> use MSIE6 to produce plain text, but a manual correction is needed. Since
> there should be no indentation of paragraphs, I can't use Lynx for creating
> text output.
> 
> Is there an XSL/DSSSL stylesheet available for direct XML->TXT conversion,
> so I could possibly modify it for my needs?

I don't know of a stylesheet for text output, but you might
look at html2text.  It gives you control over indents and
such.  It is available from:
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~mbayer/tools/html2text.html


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