Interesting to your take on it :-) It is a real challenge to make it work. I have managed in a previous life (with a incredible amount of help from a Java wizard) to get fairly successful conversions from JSPWiki to PDF using what the developer appropriately called the "world's most evil awk script" and some stylesheets which was then pushed through RenderX. The result was a reasonably good PDF to which a final manual publishing step could be applied (adding corp identity, watermarks etc). This wasn't done in the open source world though, which is where I am now.
One aspect of this conversion is how much information exists in the original format, that may be used in docbook.
Well, with what I'm working on (in OpenOffice.org) it will all be maintained in Wiki format, with a "need" (?) to produce some kind of snapshot... HTML, PDF... something. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation The need part is still under discussion... there is some reluctance to leave behind traditional publishing methods by all of us in documentation :-)
If you plan to migrate the source of a text from MediaWiki to XML, you might want to have a look at
I've come across this in my search. I am not 100% sure how happy I am with it just yet. From what I read, the original author has effectively abandoned it and there are a few issues with it that need cleaning up... bug fixing etc. It's still in the list. I will keep hunting... :-) Maybe something usable will come out of this that can be shared here too. C. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-doc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-doc+help@opensuse.org