RE: [docbook] DocBook - a success story?

["David Cramer" <dcramer@motive.com>]

You might have a look at: http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net/

David 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wolfgang haefelinger [mailto:whaefelinger@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:03 AM
> To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [docbook] DocBook - a success story?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have now worked a "bit" with DocBook. The goal of my 
> internal project was to have my CV in as many formats as 
> possible. I assume that many of you would choose OpenOffice 
> for this task since it offers a lot of "export" filters. 
> However, working with OpenOffice is nothing for me. It simply 
> drives me crazy :-)
> 
> So I used DocBook.
> 
> Here's a summary of my experience:
> 1. DocBook is fine to eventually create PDF. I used dblatex 
> which made it easy for me to customize the look and feel of 
> the final document (via providing my own 'vitae' style).
> 
> 2. DocBook is probably also fine to create (X)HTML. I did not 
> give it a try cause I consider generating HTML obsolete cause 
> most web content is generated nowadays by using some simle 
> markup languages
> 
> 3. Rendering my CV as man page would have been fun but it did 
> not work cause I'm using the "wrong" docbook format (i.e. 
> "article"). There a lot of tools which claim to render a 
> DocBook source into a man page.
> They all only render a subset of DocBook only ..
> 
> 4. I wrote my own "DocBook to Plain text" XSLT stylesheet in 
> a couple of hours work.
> 
> 5. Then I tried to import DocBook into OpenOffice. A complete 
> disaster.
> 
> 6. Meanwhile I wrote an article in Wikipedia. DocBook to Wikipedia
> (Markup) went fine by changing my "plain text" XSLT sheet. 
> However, the other way round (which I consider equally 
> important) cause me many problems and is not sufficiently 
> solved by now.
> 
> 7. When I updated my CV I run into the problem that I got 
> lost in all those xml-tags everywhere. Well, this is the old 
> XML problem anyway..
> Then I discovered Asciidoc with a simple while effective 
> markup language. There is also an export function to DocBook (4.x).
> 
> So my chain is
> 
>                                                   |=====> PDF
>       Asciidoc ==> DocBook ===|
>                                                   |=====> TEXT
> 
> That's, eh .. 4 formats.
> 
> 
> So, in all honesty: DocBook is not a success story for me.
> 
> Greetz,
> Wolfgang.
> 
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> Wolfgang Häfelinger
> häfelinger IT - Applied Software Architecture 
> http://www.haefelinger.it
> +31 648 27 61 59
> 
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