bridging the gap between Wiki & XML

People complain that the DocBook/XML toolchain is too
unwieldy/complicted 
to setup on the one hand, and (other people) that DocBook is
the way to go 
to separate design from content.

As an idea to maybe bridge that gap, I've found that the
MoinMoin Wiki 
software can export a page as DocBook. For an example, goto 
http://moinmoin.wikiw
ikiweb.de/ and at the "More Actions" dropdown
menu 
select "Render as DocBook".

Long-term I'd like to get back to the NetBSD Guide as our
"handbook" in 
XML, and having the rest of the website in something more
wieldy that 
would be nice. We could collect data like what we have in 
htdocs/Documentation now, and when it's ripe moce it as a
chapter to the 
Guide.

Of course that would need someone to move all the contents
once more... 
:(


  - Hubert

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> Of course that would need someone to move all the
contents once more... :(

Apparently there's a DocBook import scheduled for v1.6[1].
I wonder if it would be worth the effort to also look into a
converter for 
our old 'list' files (which we still happen to have :-/)


  - Hubert

[1] http://moinmoin.wik
iwikiweb.de/FeatureRequests/ImportDocBookWhishlist?highlight
=%28docbook%29