Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: Gnumed documentation

[Jim Busser]

On Mar 23, 2004, at 10:03 PM, Ian Haywood wrote:

> DocBook is a pain to write but produces high quality HTML and printed 
> output.<SNIP>
> For the user's guide we do need this ability, there is no wiki system 
> (AFAIK) that produces DocBook output, as it
> would need to preserve  the concept of the chapter-section-subsection 
> hierarchy.

I found something developed, and perhaps still in use, at the Linux 
Documentation Project, though seemed limited to LDP authors. Still 
perhaps worth to pick ideas and what may be freely usable from the 
person?
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/WikiText-HOWTO/index.html

also postings on this at
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=5273168
http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-print.php?page=DocBookDev

I also found a posting in French (my parents were Dutch but living in 
Canada they sent me to a French school) which references a Korean php 
class that generates from wiki all principal DocBook tags although the 
php code was said to contain some bizarre characters. As the French 
poster spoke no Korean they decided to not drive himself crazy and 
instead use the class Wiki2xhtml and then "switch" the xthml tags to 
DocBook. I wish I could do more with this myself but offer the info in 
case it gives useful resources, contacts or ideas.

the French posting:
http://www.sdion.net/index.php?page=40

its link to the korean resource:
http://www.gpgstudy.com/projects/wiki2docbook/wiki2docbook.php

its link to Wiki2xhtml (also in French)
http://www.neokraft.net/sottises/wiki2xhtml/