RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Converting html to DocBook XML

[Jeff Beal <jeff.beal@ansys.com>]

I did some initial work with this.  My approach was to use HTML Tidy to
convert the HTML to XHTML, and I then wrote an XSL stylesheet that converts
the HTML into DocBook.  I'm not sure how well this will scale to a
several-thousand page documentation set.  (I've used it on few-hundered page
books with reasonable success.)

I've posted the XSL on the DocBook Wiki (look for a page called
Html2DocBook).

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Grace [mailto:dgrace@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2002 10:42 AM
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Converting html to DocBook XML


Has anyone automated this process? I'm looking for a tool to help me turn a
few thousand pages of extant HTML into DocBook XML.

Thanks.

Dennis Grace

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