Abiword and Docbook

[<jfleck inkstain net>]

GDP folks -
The following is from a discussion about DocBook support in Abiword on the
gnome foundation and gnome office list. FYI.
John

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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:09:07 EST
From: Dom Lachowicz <cinamod hotmail com>
To: Daniel Veillard w3 org
Cc: foundation-list gnome org, gnome-office-list gnome org
Subject: Re: What is GNOME office?

Hi Daniel,

Our Docbook importer/exporter is a new feature in the upcoming 0.7.12 
release (due any day now). They were written by Sam TH and myself. The 
importer subclasses our XML import engine, so we use the XML Docbook DTD on 
import and export. We handle a subset of the Docbook tags, though probably 
not those that you're most interested in. It might be easiest to use 
ABI->DBK for most of your document and then add the additional markup tags 
that you need. But I have no experience writing documentation or novels 
using DocBook, so I don't know exactly what features you would need from 
Abi.

IIRC, we handle the following tags because they are WP related and were a 
good starting point:
<para>
<blockquote>
<chapter>
<title>
<phrase>
<emphasis>
<superscript>
<subscript>

We're looking to add support for more tags in the future. Changing AbiWord 
to be a DocBook editor would probably not be easy, but who knows? This is 
just the beginning, not the end. Feel free to check out our current CVS 
sources and play with the DBK feature. Send me any comments or questions you 
may have with it and ways that we might be able to improve our DBK feature 
set.

Dom
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