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[Karsten Wade]

On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 15:17, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Is there a possibility to just write the content and
> submit it instead of doing it in docbook itself?

There have been offers here to help with XML generation.  There are
tools to convert from just about any format, even if it takes multiple
steps such as .doc -> .txt -> .xml.

This page has several good ones:

http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/ConvertOtherFormatsToDocBook

Ones I have used:

http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/
http://txt2docbook.sourceforge.net/
http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ppadala/tidy/

The last one does a nice job of converting (X)HTML to XML, except for
nasty tables.

If someone writes a seriously good HOWTO or tutorial and submits it as
material, there is a good chance someone else will jump in to help
convert.  This will work for now.

- Karsten
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