[drupal-docs] generating Drupal Handbook pdf's manually

[Ron Mahon]

Speaking of tagging, indexing has any one considered XML as the universal
format. It would then be possible to repurpose the content as a RSS feed,
book page, web page, PDA page  maybe even audio feed by applying different
schemas or style sheets

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-----Original Message-----
From: Gabor Hojtsy [mailto:gabor at hojtsy.hu] 
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 3:37 PM
To: drupal-docs at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [drupal-docs] generating Drupal Handbook pdf's manually

>    A more conventional approach would be to encourage authors to tag 
> individual words or <span class='index-entry'
> key='phrase'>phrases</span>.  This might be something we could ask 
> authors to do.
> 
> Your idea is interesting, though. I'm trying to envision how this 
> might work.  This might be a useful way to deal with some of the 
> 'remaining 30%' of indexing which is difficult to do automatically.
> This tends to be the subtle and challenging portion of the work.

DocBook has quite complete indexing support :)

   http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/07/14/dbndx.html

Goba