I had a client with a similar issue, and so I wrote a DocBook-to-DITA XSL
transform to use as a preprocessor for that output. They used a
well-defined subset of DocBook and so the stylesheet did not have to account
for all DocBook elements and combinations. As far as I know, they are still
using that in production. I can't share that stylesheet with you, but it
was pretty straightforward to develop.
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Johnson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 7:24 AM
Subject: [docbook-apps] WebWorks Help Output
> Are there any tools that support generating WebWorks help from DocBook? It
> seems that WebWorks does not, it currently supports DITA exclusively.
>
> Our team here is looking to move from FrameMaker to an XML format and it
> looks like DocBook is a much better mapping for the style of content we
> produce, but a number of our product use WebWorks. or MadCap Flare, to
> generate help systems. This seems to be a major sticking point.
>
> I personally find that DITA is overly restrictive and geared towards
> making bad writers less bad, so I would be less than thrilled to be forced
> into using it because of a lack of commercial tool support.
>
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