Re: DocBook to LaTex?

[Rahul Dave <rahul at reno dot cis dot upenn dot edu>]

SGMLS.pm:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/David_Megginson/
Rahul
I got this from you:
> 
>  * Jorge Godoy <godoy@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 04:16:00PM +0200, Sylvan Ravinet wrote:
> > > Jochem Huhmann wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > > ftp://ftp.sol.no/public/users/v/vigu/sgml/dtd/docbook/docbk2latex.pl
> > > > It's no more there, yes. And I don't have a copy of it either. This
> > > > script was quite primitive btw, everyone with a scriptable parser (perl,
> > > > python, tcl...)  and some knowlegde of DocBook and LaTeX should be able
> > > > to write a script that converts a given instance of (a subset of)
> > > > DocBook.
> > > 
> > > So what would be the "design" of such a script? I can think of some
> > > regexps, but maybe it's not the best way (I never manipulated any XML
> > > parser)
> > 
> > Seems that this tool (bcc) can do the job. 
> > I've just downloaded that and I'll try to convert some documents into
> > LaTeX documents.
> > 
> > 
> > http://www.multimania.com/jcalles/XML/
> 
> Oh dear. This is written in scheme, you need a scheme compiler (bigloo)
> to get it up and running. And patience, since this is written in C++,
> compiling took its time. The example scripts are a toolchain to convert
> the old LinuxDoc-DTD to DocBook (the ld2db stylesheet from the newer
> sgmltools does this also very fine, btw.) and then to LaTeX. Since
> LinuxDoc is very simple (no tables, no graphics) the supported DocBook
> is also quite simple. This surely can be extented (and bigloo comes with
> a nice IDE for XEmacs, too), but all the comments in the code are in
> french. I haven't even tried to understand what's going on in there.
> 
> If I would start to code such a converter, I would use tcl, perl or
> python. 
> 
>         Jochem
> 
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