[docbook] Best wiki engines or tools for wiki-to-docbook conversions?

[Matthew East]

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Dougie Richardson
<dougierichardson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> 2009/4/30 David Cramer <dcramer at motive.com>:
>> MoinMoin has a "Render as DocBook" feature that works well in recent version
>> of MoinMoin (in older versions it didn't produce good DocBook). Go to
>> http://moinmo.in/ and click More Actions->Render as DocBook. In our wiki
>> we've added "Render as PDF" and "Render as HTML" items that let you run the
>> DocBook through our xslts and send back a pdf or zipped html version of the
>> page. MoinMoin does not have section editing, but you can approximate it by
>> combining pages into a wrapper pages using the <<include()>> macro.
>>
>> David
>
> Thanks for bringing that to our attention, its certainly a good start
> - do you know if the stylesheets and transformations are freely
> available and where from.

See http://moinmo.in/DocBook for more information about the feature.

> It produces a good output but needs tweaking for our needs - not least
> because it doesn't break after and tags so is very hard to read on one
> line. This isn't too hard to get round though.

You can pipe it through the "tidy" program to sort that out. But it
had a few bugs last time I tried it, in particular it didn't handle
whitespace very well. I don't know whether it has been worked on
recently.

-- 
Matthew East
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