docbook-apps

Hi Steve,


I am Buddhiprabha Erabadda, a third year undergraduate from Computer
Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa. I went through the ideas
for DocBook and got interested in the project DocBook to Word XML
roundtripping XSLs. I have been studying about DocBook from a few days and
now I know the process at the client side and I have gathered basic
knowledge about XPath and XSLT . I have also started studying about DocBook
Roundtripping. [1], [2]


Are there any other links to resources which might be useful to further
study about the project DocBook to Word XML roundtripping XSLs? I am new to
DocBook and I would appreciate advice regarding the project. Thank you in
advance.


[1] http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw05/papers/edited/ball/poster.html
[2] http://www.explain.com.au/oss/docbook/index.html

--
*Buddhiprabha Erabadda*
*Department of Computer Science and Engineering*
*University of Moratuwa*

On 02/04/12 05:03, Buddhiprabha Erabadda wrote:

>
> Are there any other links to resources which might be useful to further
> study about the project DocBook to Word XML roundtripping XSLs? I am new to
> DocBook and I would appreciate advice regarding the project. Thank you in
> advance.

http://www.zveno.com/open_source/dbk-wordml.html

Steve has been doing this for some time?

regards

--
Dave Pawson
XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
http://www.dpawson.co.uk

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On 04/02/2012 01:31 AM, davep wrote:
> On 02/04/12 05:03, Buddhiprabha Erabadda wrote:
>
>>
>> Are there any other links to resources which might be useful to
>> further study about the project DocBook to Word XML roundtripping
>> XSLs? I am new to DocBook and I would appreciate advice regarding
>> the project. Thank you in advance.
>
> http://www.zveno.com/open_source/dbk-wordml.html
>
> Steve has been doing this for some time?

CCing Steve.

Yes. The item on the ideas page is to advance Steve's work. Steve has
indicated he would be willing to mentor a GSoC project this year.

David
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Hi,

I'm assuming that you have downloaded the DocBook XSL stylesheets? There is a specification document contained in it that details what is and isn't supported by the roundtripping system.

In what way would you like to participate in the project? Supporting Open Office? Extending the system to later versions of Word? Use of XSLT 2.0? Let me know.

Cheers,
Steve Ball
Explain

On 02/04/2012, at 2:03 PM, Buddhiprabha Erabadda wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
>
>
> I am Buddhiprabha Erabadda, a third year undergraduate from Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa. I went through the ideas for DocBook and got interested in the project DocBook to Word XML roundtripping XSLs. I have been studying about DocBook from a few days and now I know the process at the client side and I have gathered basic knowledge about XPath and XSLT . I have also started studying about DocBook Roundtripping. [1], [2]
>
>
>
> Are there any other links to resources which might be useful to further study about the project DocBook to Word XML roundtripping XSLs? I am new to DocBook and I would appreciate advice regarding the project. Thank you in advance.
>
>
>
> [1] http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw05/papers/edited/ball/poster.html
>
> [2] http://www.explain.com.au/oss/docbook/index.html
>
> --
> Buddhiprabha Erabadda
> Department of Computer Science and Engineering
> University of Moratuwa
>

Hi Steve,

Nice to see you in the mailing list.

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:20 AM, Steve Ball <Steve.Ball@explain.com.au>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm assuming that you have downloaded the DocBook XSL stylesheets? There
> is a specification document contained in it that details what is and isn't
> supported by the roundtripping system.
>

Yes I downloaded the latest snapshot version, docbook-xsl-ns-snapshot.zip
from [1] link and went through lots of folders and Docbook style sheets
inside it. As you said, I converted the specification.xml to HTML format
and went trough all the content of it. That gave me a good understanding
about what are the goals and non-goals of the roundtripping system.

>
> In what way would you like to participate in the project? Supporting Open
> Office? Extending the system to later versions of Word? Use of XSLT 2.0?
> Let me know.
>

I have great interest in Open Office. Therefore I would like to participate
in "supporting Open Office" way and I am also interested in "Extending the
system to later versions of Word". But I can work in any way you suggest
and I can get familiar with it in few days.

Since I am very new to Word XML roundtripping XSLs, I will
really appreciate any advice and suggestion regarding this project.
And these days I am working on creating a very strong proposal for
this project. Therefore, your guidance and advice regarding the
proposal will be very helpful to me. I will share with you a draft proposal
I have made so far as soon as possible.

Thanks in advance.

>
> Cheers,
> Steve Ball
> Explain
>
> On 02/04/2012, at 2:03 PM, Buddhiprabha Erabadda wrote:
>
> Hi Steve,
>
>
> I am Buddhiprabha Erabadda, a third year undergraduate from Computer
> Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa. I went through the ideas
> for DocBook and got interested in the project DocBook to Word XML
> roundtripping XSLs. I have been studying about DocBook from a few days and
> now I know the process at the client side and I have gathered basic
> knowledge about XPath and XSLT . I have also started studying about DocBook
> Roundtripping. [1], [2]
>
>
> Are there any other links to resources which might be useful to further
> study about the project DocBook to Word XML roundtripping XSLs? I am new to
> DocBook and I would appreciate advice regarding the project. Thank you in
> advance.
>
>
> [1] http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw05/papers/edited/ball/poster.html
> [2] http://www.explain.com.au/oss/docbook/index.html
>
> --
> *Buddhiprabha Erabadda*
> *Department of Computer Science and Engineering*
> *University of Moratuwa*
>
>
>
[1] http://snapshots.docbook.org/


--
*Buddhiprabha Erabadda*
*Department of Computer Science and Engineering*
*University of Moratuwa*

Hi Buddhiprabha,

That all sounds great.

At this stage I would say that you need to also take a look at the XML schemas for WordML and Open Office. Files saved by Word or OO are actually zip files, so you can unzip them and take a look at the contents. You need to understand that structure so that you can replicate it in order to create new documents.

Cheers,
Steve Ball

On 05/04/2012, at 3:35 AM, Buddhiprabha Erabadda wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> Nice to see you in the mailing list.
>
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:20 AM, Steve Ball <Steve.Ball@explain.com.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm assuming that you have downloaded the DocBook XSL stylesheets? There is a specification document contained in it that details what is and isn't supported by the roundtripping system.
>
> Yes I downloaded the latest snapshot version, docbook-xsl-ns-snapshot.zip from [1] link and went through lots of folders and Docbook style sheets inside it. As you said, I converted the specification.xml to HTML format and went trough all the content of it. That gave me a good understanding about what are the goals and non-goals of the roundtripping system.
>
> In what way would you like to participate in the project? Supporting Open Office? Extending the system to later versions of Word? Use of XSLT 2.0? Let me know.
>
> I have great interest in Open Office. Therefore I would like to participate in "supporting Open Office" way and I am also interested in "Extending the system to later versions of Word". But I can work in any way you suggest and I can get familiar with it in few days.
>
> Since I am very new to Word XML roundtripping XSLs, I will really appreciate any advice and suggestion regarding this project. And these days I am working on creating a very strong proposal for this project. Therefore, your guidance and advice regarding the proposal will be very helpful to me. I will share with you a draft proposal I have made so far as soon as possible.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Ball
> Explain
>
> On 02/04/2012, at 2:03 PM, Buddhiprabha Erabadda wrote:
>
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am Buddhiprabha Erabadda, a third year undergraduate from Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa. I went through the ideas for DocBook and got interested in the project DocBook to Word XML roundtripping XSLs. I have been studying about DocBook from a few days and now I know the process at the client side and I have gathered basic knowledge about XPath and XSLT . I have also started studying about DocBook Roundtripping. [1], [2]
>>
>>
>>
>> Are there any other links to resources which might be useful to further study about the project DocBook to Word XML roundtripping XSLs? I am new to DocBook and I would appreciate advice regarding the project. Thank you in advance.
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw05/papers/edited/ball/poster.html
>>
>> [2] http://www.explain.com.au/oss/docbook/index.html
>>
>> --
>> Buddhiprabha Erabadda
>> Department of Computer Science and Engineering
>> University of Moratuwa
>>
>
>
> [1] http://snapshots.docbook.org/
>
>
> --
> Buddhiprabha Erabadda
> Department of Computer Science and Engineering
> University of Moratuwa
>