On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 12:12:56AM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote:
> I have a man page which I maintain in both HTML and groff formats.
> I know that groff can output HTML, but I have some href links in the
> HTML which I would rather keep.
> So I want to switch to DocBook/XML for the page and produce both HTML
> and roff out of it.
> Have anyone done that?
>
> PS. docbook2man barfs with
> nsgmls:<URL>http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd:112:17:E: "X20AC" is not a function name
> nsgmls:<URL>http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/ent/iso-amsa.ent:8:19:E: "X21B6" is not a function name
> nsgmls:<URL>http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/ent/iso-amsa.ent:9:19:E: "X21B7" is not a function name
> nsgmls:<URL>http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/ent/iso-amsa.ent:10:17:E: "X21D3" is not a function name
Looks like the standard errors you get when dealing with an XML
document as if it were just an SGML document (ie. not providing the
SGML declaration for XML to the parser).
This tool probably only supports SGML DocBook right now. Note that
there are something like 3 different tools to do such a conversion.
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