Thread: html2sgml converter ...

html2sgml converter ...

From
The Hermit Hacker
Date:
found one at:

http://www.abc.se/~m9339/prog/html2sgml.html

but its for linuxdoc vs docbook ... anyone know enough about sgml to
make it work?

just looking for shortcuts :)

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Re: [DOCS] html2sgml converter ...

From
Thomas Lockhart
Date:
> found one at:
> http://www.abc.se/~m9339/prog/html2sgml.html
> but its for linuxdoc vs docbook ... anyone know enough about sgml to
> make it work?
> just looking for shortcuts :)

LinuxDoc and DocBook are not really close in features, although some
things like paragraph markings can map cleanly (LinuxDoc uses "<p>"
and DocBook uses "<para>", for example).

This particular package seems to be stale.

What transformation are you trying to do? The sgmltools package is a
likely candidate for something with conversion utilities, but I
haven't tried installing it since before it converted from LinuxDoc to
DocBook.

Also, I've got a perl utility which does brute-force tag substitution,
which I used to help convert Jose Soares' reference pages from plain
text to sgml. The utility is quite simpleminded, could be useful for
some projects.

                    - Thomas

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