Re: [docbook] XML document type for authoring release notes?

[Thomas Schraitle <tom_schr@web.de>]

Hi Robert,

thanks for your mail.

Am Tue, 23 May 2017 08:58:06 +0200
schrieb "Fekete, Róbert" <robert.fekete@balabit.com>:
 
> [...]
> But the main question is how you want to deliver this document to your
> readers, and how your company will use this content. For example, if
> it is part of an announcement email that is sent out in plain-text,
> then you might not even need XML. If you post it on your website as
> HTML, then you probably do.

I think, HTML and plain-text as output aren't a contradiction. If you
need both, you can still use DocBook as main source.

If you need HTML, use whatever workflow you normally use. But when you
need plain-text, transform it to simple HTML and dump it as text with
w3m. That text can be used as your "announcement mail". ;)

If you want to optimize the text output, you can set some parameters for
the XSLT stylesheets which doesn't make any sense for text output.


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Gruß/Regards,
    Thomas Schraitle