atom feed8 messages in org.oasis-open.lists.docbookRe: DOCBOOK: Docbook -> Text
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David LloydAug 10, 2001 4:32 pm 
Bob StaytonAug 10, 2001 4:46 pm 
Eric LOEWAug 13, 2001 6:24 am 
David LloydAug 13, 2001 5:24 pm 
Dan YorkAug 14, 2001 5:34 am 
Nik ClaytonAug 14, 2001 7:55 am.pgp
Dave PawsonAug 14, 2001 10:31 am 
Shang-Lin ChenAug 14, 2001 5:57 pm 
Subject:Re: DOCBOOK: Docbook -> Text
From:Dan York (dyo@e-smith.com)
Date:Aug 14, 2001 5:34:54 am
List:org.oasis-open.lists.docbook

Eric,

There isn't a direct method ?

As David and others have said, there is no direct method. Like Bob Stayton, I use a text browser (lynx in my case) to get a text version of the HTML page. The major issue I have with it is that lynx puts in references to *internal* links within a page. So you wind up with a whole bunch of extra (and useless) info at the bottom of the page.

The next couple of weeks are crazy for me, but after that I am toying with the idea of creating a "text" series of XSLT stylesheets based on what Norm did with the HTML stylesheets.... as I, too, need to go to plain text for some things... so maybe several of us could work on that.

I will fire a note off to 'docbook-apps' when I have the cycles to work on it... sometime next month.

Regards, Dan