[Techtalk] Docbook XML -> Text on a Debian system

Mary mary-linuxchix at puzzling.org
Mon Sep 9 08:00:05 EST 2002


On Mon, Sep 09, 2002, Jenn Vesperman wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 13:35, Mary wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me of an existing stylesheet that converts Docbook
> > XML straight to nicely formatted text (ie with generated chapter
> > numbers and that kind of thing, sensible line breaks preferred)?
> 
> I just use sgmltools -btxt

sgmltools -btxt is just a pipe through w3m's text dumping facility (or
at least, on my Debian box it is). It's what you currently see when I
mail the FAQs out, which is why you don't see all the URLs :(

-Mary



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