LinuxDoc to DocBook conversion

LinuxDoc to DocBook conversion

[Reuben Thomas]

Having installed the Cygnus DocBook tools RPMs on my RH 6 system, and
copied the ld2db.dsl file from sgmltools 2.0.2, I'm struggling to get it
to work. The file ld2db.dsl seems to be found correctly, but jade gives
lots of error messages, seemingly because it has OMITTAG NO set, and the
document I'm trying to convert has lots of tags omitted.

So my first question is, how do I change the OMITTAG setting? I'm new to
SGML and DocBook, but after quite a lot of reading and searching I've
found no answer to this question.

Also, has anyone managed to get the converter to work? I've found one
message in the sgmltools mailing list saying that it worked for someone,
but I tried installing sgmltools 2.0.2 and had exactly the same problem
with omitted tags.

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Re: LinuxDoc to DocBook conversion

[Hugo.van.der.Kooij]

On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Reuben Thomas wrote:

> Also, has anyone managed to get the converter to work? I've found one
> message in the sgmltools mailing list saying that it worked for someone,
> but I tried installing sgmltools 2.0.2 and had exactly the same problem
> with omitted tags.

I had documents with closing tags. But then the conversion is done
acceptable. But you may find that you want to fix up the document after
that as linuxdoc is rather poor on tags.

After all <Command>rpm</Command is not the same as
<FileName>rpm</FileName> even if both may be printed identical. (They
don't, but you would use <tt>rpm</tt> for both cases with linuxdoc.)

Hugo.

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Re: LinuxDoc to DocBook conversion

[Norman Walsh]

| So my first question is, how do I change the OMITTAG setting? I'm new to
| SGML and DocBook, but after quite a lot of reading and searching I've
| found no answer to this question.

I don't know much about how the converter runs, but OMITTAG is a feature
of the SGML Declaration. You might have better luck with the converter
if you run the source documents through sgmlnorm first:

  sgmlnorm somedeclarationwithomittagyes.dcl source.sgm > expanded.sgm

The "expanded.sgm" file won't have any ommitted tags...

                                        Cheers,
                                          norm

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