From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-10-24T07:33:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23111] Re: splitting a string with nested elements

Tobias Reif <tobiasreif@pinkjuice.com> writes:

> Dave Thomas wrote:
> > This sounds scary, but I use it to convert the Ruby book source,
> > into XML.
> 
> ... into Docbook? from what? and then? just (obviously) curious ;)

No, just a random schema that fits the book (docbook doesn't do stuff I
needed). The physical book is printed straight from the Postscript
generated by LaTeX, but to generate the online version, I convert the
LaTeX to XML, then use XSL to get something in HTML. (It's kinda
messy, and not the way we'd have done it had we known we were going to
open-content the book, but it works... Believe me, I tried many, many
tools to try to avoid doing the conversion myself, and none did
everything I needed.)


Dave