Re: DocBook Stylesheets for ASCII conversion?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 04:09:18PM +0900,
 Michael Smith <smith@xml-doc.org> wrote 
 a message of 34 lines which said:

> The way that most people do that is to first use the standard DocBook
> stylesheets (either XSL or DSSSL) to convert to HTML, and then
> post-process that by running it through either lynx, links, or w3m with
> the -dump option to generate plain text.

It gives a very poor result:

1) No way to have URLs inline, they are postponed until the end of the
text.

2) Links internal to the document are rendered as file: URL with a
local file name.

3) Bold or italic are not rendered with ASCII conventions (*bold* or
_italic_)