Re: [docbook-apps] Generating markdown output from DocBook

[Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

As always, the question remains, which markdown?
   Such a long processing chain may cause problems?
regards

On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 02:11, Peter Desjardins
<peter.desjardins.us@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm finding that more documentation tools are optimized for consuming markdown these days. For example, some commercial API portal frameworks and site-generation tools use markdown as their default input formats.
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> Does anyone have a nice solution for using tools that consume markdown when you write and maintain your documentation source in DocBook XML format?
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> I have considered using a utility like Pandoc as a final processing step. So the chain would be something like DocBook > XSLT > HTML > Pandoc > markdown.
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> I have also wondered whether anyone has built DocBook XSLT that directly converts the XML to markdown.
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> Do you have something that works well for you?
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> Thanks!
>
> Peter



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