On 11/27/20 1:20 PM, Gerd Wagner wrote:
Am 11/27/2020 um 11:43 AM schrieb Hussein Shafie:
On 11/27/20 9:52 AM, Gerd Wagner wrote:
Are there any converters that provide DocBook to ebook conversion?
Sorry but the answer is no.
Isn't there a need for it? For me it's clear, that XML Mind's ebook
format is superior to (the more and more obsolete) DocBook format.
Indeed. If we want to promote "HTML5 as an alternative to DITA and
DocBook" (paper here:
http://www.xmlmind.com/tutorials/HTML5Books/HTML5Books.html), we clearly
need quality DocBook and DITA converters.
Since I have authored many tutorials and a 500 pages book as DocBook,
I'd really like to convert them.
We certainly understand this. Sorry for this shortcoming.
Given the fact that an ebook is basically a set of HTML5 pages, may be
you should search for an DocBook to HTML converter.
Especially for my 500 pages book, it would be a prohibitive amount of
work to generate the messy and low-quality HTML from Docbook, having to
remove/convert all the unnecessary divs and then re-create the binding,
conditional profiling, index information, etc.
Sure.
Am 11/27/2020 um 12:04 PM schrieb Manuel Collado:
El 27/11/2020 a las 9:52, Gerd Wagner escribió:
Are there any converters that provide DocBook to ebook conversion?
Maybe pandoc.
https://pandoc.org/
Thank you for the tip, Manuel.
Thanks for pointing this out. However, they do not (yet) convert to the ebook
format.
Its generated HTML5 is much cleaner than the DocBook-XSLT-generated HTML5, but
it does not preserve/create section elements
Pretty surprising given the fact that sections are one of HTML5 strengths.
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