Re: [docbook-apps] Tools for DocBook authoring by non-hackers

["W. Borgert" <debacle@debian.org>]

Quoting "Paul A. Hoadley" <paulh@logicsquad.net>:
> other people's mileage has varied.)  Anyway, it only needs to be done
> once, as the plan is to abandon Word in favour of XML.  Further
> authoring will hopefully be in DocBook.  It's the spiritual conversion

OK, if it's a single one-way transition with hand editing
afterwards, that's possible.  In fact, I did this using
OpenOffice 1.1 and it's DocBook/XML export feature.  The
exported files were not even valid XML, but with the help
of Emacs+psgml and Emacs+nxml it was possible.  This task
has to be done by hackers!

> What I'm envisaging is (possibly hugely) customising the interface
> (which looks feasible from my brief browse at xmlmind.com) to present
> a very non-scary subset of DocBook which the non-technical authors can
> use to add content to some pre-existing template documents.

This is easy!  You don't need to change the GUI of XXE or
anything.  Just create your own DTD derived from
DocBook/XML and use this subset with XXE.  As long as it
is a subset, not a superset, this should just work.

Cheers, WB