[Cuis-dev] XML in Erudite

Mariano Montone marianomontone at gmail.com
Thu Jun 20 19:25:43 PDT 2024


And the Cuis book being rendered from its DocBook sources.

El 19/6/24 a las 17:23, Mariano Montone escribió:
> Just loaded the "DocBook definitive Guide" directly from the sources 
> in Erudite.
>
> Misses lots of elements rendering, but it is a good start.
>
> Ok, apologies for the spam :)
>
>
>      Mariano
>
> El 19/6/24 a las 08:50, Mariano Montone escribió:
>>
>> El 16/6/24 a las 11:26, Hilaire Fernandes via Cuis-dev escribió:
>>> Supporting docbook is likely what may prove to be the most useful 
>>> and simple for you. It is plain XML (Libreoffice can produce docbook 
>>> 4, standard of 2006, docbook 5 is from 2016) and largely supported 
>>> with conversion tool. It is the pivot neutral format to then convert 
>>> to other format. Erudite may just need to support a very small 
>>> subset of docbook, far enough for meaningful use.
>>
>> I've been thinking about DocBook support and trying some initial 
>> experiments, and I think it has the potential to come along very fast.
>>
>> My approach is this: let the DocBook source be as rich as wanted, 
>> Erudite takes the bits it understands and renders them. And keep the 
>> DocBook source untouched, so it can be processed properly with 
>> external tools.
>>
>> I think it is going to work.
>>
>>      Mariano
>>
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