Re: DocBook exporter for Org-mode

[Baoqiu Cui <cbaoqiu@yahoo.com>]

Baoqiu Cui <cbaoqiu@yahoo.com> writes:

> Dale Smith <dales@vxitech.com> writes:
>
>> Baoqiu Cui <cbaoqiu@yahoo.com> writes:
>>
>>> The only thing that is missing (at least to me) in current Org-mode is
>>> the exporter for DocBook format.
>>
>> There is quite a bit of similarity between org and muse formats.  I've
>> found that I can edit .muse files in org-mode and stiil publish to
>> docbook.
>
> Yes, Muse and Org-mode do have some similarity.  While Muse is mainly
> for publishing, Org-mode focuses on many other things beyond some good
> publishing functionality.  Since Org-mode already has a very good
> publishing framework in its HTML exporter , it is relatively easy (a
> small step) to make Org-mode a strong publishing environment too.
>
> I have not used Muse in the past 2+ years.  Don't know whether it has
> got much improvement...  It's a nice trick to edit .muse files in
> Org-mode. :-)
>
>>> During the last week (mainly during the last weekend), I wrote some code
>>> to export Org files to DocBook V5.0 format, and everything looks very
>>> promising (I have to admit that a lot of work still needs to be done to
>>> make the code complete and stable) .
>>
>> Looks pretty good to me.  I'm ready to ty it out!
>
> Thanks.  I'll work on the code a little bit more during the weekend and
> post it to the group.

Link to the code:

  http://code.google.com/p/bcui-emacs/source/browse/#svn/trunk/org-docbook

Baoqiu