Re: [docbook-apps] WebWorks Help Output

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

I had a client with a similar issue, and so I wrote a DocBook-to-DITA XSL 
transform to use as a preprocessor for that output.  They used a 
well-defined subset of DocBook and so the stylesheet did not have to account 
for all DocBook elements and combinations.  As far as I know, they are still 
using that in production.  I can't share that stylesheet with you, but it 
was pretty straightforward to develop.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Johnson" <emjohnso@progress.com>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 7:24 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] WebWorks Help Output


> Are there any tools that support generating WebWorks help from DocBook? It 
> seems that WebWorks does not, it currently supports DITA exclusively.
>
> Our team here is looking to move from FrameMaker to an XML format and it 
> looks like DocBook is a much better mapping for the style of content we 
> produce, but a number of our product use WebWorks. or MadCap Flare, to 
> generate help systems. This seems to be a major sticking point.
>
> I personally find that DITA is overly restrictive and geared towards 
> making bad writers less bad, so I would be less than thrilled to be forced 
> into using it because of a lack of commercial tool support.
>
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