Re: Generating markdown output from DocBook
Dave Pawson <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Jan 2021 08:24:45 +0000
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As always, the question remains, which markdown? Such a long processing chain may cause problems? regards On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 02:11, Peter Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm finding that more documentation tools are optimized for consuming markdown these days. For example, some commercial API portal frameworks and site-generation tools use markdown as their default input formats. > > Does anyone have a nice solution for using tools that consume markdown when you write and maintain your documentation source in DocBook XML format? > > I have considered using a utility like Pandoc as a final processing step. So the chain would be something like DocBook > XSLT > HTML > Pandoc > markdown. > > I have also wondered whether anyone has built DocBook XSLT that directly converts the XML to markdown. > > Do you have something that works well for you? > > Thanks! > > Peter -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ.