I'd like to share some observations I've made while trying to transform a legacy text document to Docbook 5.0.
The source actually is a textile formatted piece of text. While there certainly are easier ways to do a conversion to DocBook I wanted to gain some experience in modifying and restructuring a document because this will be the main purpose of the exercise: gather pieces of information scattered over a number of Wikis and How-to's and create a consolidated and well structured document that can be published as HTML, PDF, etc. Thus I created a book and a chapter each in a single file, the book referencing the chapter, This works fine. Then I created a section in the chapter and tried to copy the source text into the chapter. Not too surprisingly all white space is treated the same, i.e. line feeds are not seen as line feeds any more. So I wrapped every line in a <para></para> before importing. Better. Now I tried to recreate the original structure by using the different insert, paste, replace, and convert commands as explained in the tutorial. I had a really hard time because most of it did not work as expected... I must be doing something wrong. Now I ran a validation and worked through the findings: naturally, there were a couple of tags coming from the textile markup like </pre> etc. Once I eliminated all errors things became a lot easier because commands which behaved confusing now worked as expected. However, there are still some obscurities: The document showed no validation errors when I closed it. After reopening the document (in the context of the book) I performed a validation again and the following error was found: The number of seg elements must be the same as the number of segtitle elements in the parent segmentedlist Obviously only one seg element is allowed. But if I select a seg node and try 'insert after' the only element offered is 'seg'. How can that be? Similarly, other tags inserted using insert or paste created errors because the tags were not allowed at this place. Shouldn't xxe avoid this in the first place? What am I doing wrong? I expected that a series of paras could be converted to an itemizedlist by selecting the paras and applying either convert[wrap] or replace: convert[wrap] does not offer 'itemizedlist', replace does but creates an empty list and the contents of the selected paras are lost. So how can this be done? I created another document and some elements within the document, e.g. an 'informaltable'. I can select an element and choose copy but when I move to another document within xxe Paste is not offered. Can elements not be copied between different documents? Don't get me wrong. XXE appears to be a great product. The tutorials are good in their shortness (otherwise no one would read them). But in some cases I seem to miss the obvious ... Thanks Hans Kassensysteme Warenwirtschaft Vernetzung __________________________ Hans Artmann Flüggenstr. 10 80639 München Tel +49 89 17095721 Fax +49 89 17095722 Mob +49 151 17413090 www.arcasys.de Ust-Id: DE261339573
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