[xmlroff] Texinfo-XML-to-FO stylesheet?

[Tony Graham]

On Mon, Jul 16 2007 12:02:15 +0100, asmodai at in-nomine.org wrote:
> -On [20070716 12:51], Tony Graham (Tony.Graham at MenteithConsulting.com) wrote:
...
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/linux/2002/11/01/awk3.html documents
> how how Arnold went from Texinfo to DocBook, interesting read.

It left me wondering why he didn't use docbook2x and why O'Reilly's
editors don't use an XML editor that saves them being bothered by lack
of whitespace between tags.

...
> For most of my technical documentation I use reST and DocBook/XML nowadays.
> very accessible formats.

What is reST?

> Personally I never quite fancied the info documentation, especially the
> horrendous default keybindings.

I use info because I use Emacs, but these days the Texinfo can be
translated into more than just .info files.

The idea for translating Texinfo XML to FO is more to bolster adoption
of xmlroff than because I'm a fan of Texinfo: I've written two Emacs
modes but never managed to write info files for them because I'd rather
use XML (or, once upon a time, SGML).

Regards,


Tony.