Re: [docbook-apps] DocBook and InDesign

[Keith Fahlgren <abdelazer@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I was asked to contribute to some work for transforming XHTML into  
IDML and was pleased with the results (given the circumstances). From  
that background,
I agree with Jirka's assessment about transforming a subset of DocBook  
and think this would be a relatively straightforward XSLT. I would not  
try to roundtrip.


The project is open source and available at (from memory): http://code.google.com/p/ickmull/


Regards,
Keith

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On Jun 15, 2010, at 6:34 AM, Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> wrote:

> Giuseppe Bonelli wrote:
>
>> I don't think that mapping DB tags to ID styles is the best approach
>> to import docbook files in InDesign. The DB DTD is simply to complex
>> to be managed efficently by InDesign.
>
> Typical DocBook document uses 20-30 elements, you don't have to cover
> full DocBook in custom solution.
>
>> I think the solution is an XSLT from DB to IDML.
>
> But such transformation will require you to define formatting during
> this transformation. Isn't there already conversion from FO into IDML?
> This should be less effort. There are several tools for producing DOCX
> and ODT from FO, but it would be nice to have ability to use  
> InDesign as
> FO engine.
>
>                Jirka
>
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