Proposal for Implementing a Docbook Editor

[Toshio Kuratomi]

satya komaragiri wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am a final year undergraduate student from India and I plan to apply
> for Google Summer of Code. I would like to implement a Docbook editor.
> I discussed this idea with Mr. Yaakov Nemoy (cc'ed in this mail) who
> has agreed and is guiding me through the process.
> 
> The Docbook editor will make it easy to write documentation through a
> wysiwyg interface. Since Docbook has a great collection of XSLs[1] it
> will be easy to convert it to HTML and write a web based editor.
> 
> My research has pointed me to Beacon[2], which is a similar editor for
> GuideXML (Gentoo's documentation format). It uses an XSLT engine to
> transform XML to HTML and vice versa. I contacted the developer of
> this project and it seems like this project has been in hibernation
> for couple of months or so. But the codebase is quite developed and
> should be easy to work with. The developers were also making it a
> generic plug-able framework for easy integration of other doc types.
> 
> Since it is a web-based editor, we can integrate this into the Fedora
> documentation site for easy editing and creation.
> 
What are you going to integrate with?  Zikula?  Meediawiki?

-Toshio


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