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Re: Direct DocBook2txt?
- From: Bob Stayton <bobs at caldera dot com>
- To: Tomas Valusek <tvalusek at vs dot inext dot cz>, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 14:01:56 -0700
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Direct DocBook2txt?
- References: <00ce01c20b3b$e4c50b90$98006fd4@tomasek>
On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 10:18:35PM +0200, Tomas Valusek wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm an editor of a Czech magazine for blind computer users. I'm working on
> WinXP, and currently almost all articles are written in HTML and converted
> to plain text because of accessibility (some subscribers can't use HTML). I
> use MSIE6 to produce plain text, but a manual correction is needed. Since
> there should be no indentation of paragraphs, I can't use Lynx for creating
> text output.
>
> Is there an XSL/DSSSL stylesheet available for direct XML->TXT conversion,
> so I could possibly modify it for my needs?
I don't know of a stylesheet for text output, but you might
look at html2text. It gives you control over indents and
such. It is available from:
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~mbayer/tools/html2text.html
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