Proposal for Implementing a Docbook Editor

[Matthew Daniels]

Satya,

A docbook XML editor, especially web-based as you propose, could  
definitely be useful for the docs team. I don't think it would totally  
eliminate the need to know XML, but it doesn't need to. Just giving a  
way for contributers to write content without having to learn a rich  
markup language would probably mean we could recruit more people and  
get things done faster.

Keep us updated on your progress!

On Mar 21, 2009, at 8:04 AM, satya komaragiri <satya.komaragiri at gmail.com 
 > wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am a final year undergraduate student from India and I plan to apply
> for Google Summer of Code. I would like to implement a Docbook editor.
> I discussed this idea with Mr. Yaakov Nemoy (cc'ed in this mail) who
> has agreed and is guiding me through the process.
>
> The Docbook editor will make it easy to write documentation through a
> wysiwyg interface. Since Docbook has a great collection of XSLs[1] it
> will be easy to convert it to HTML and write a web based editor.
>
> My research has pointed me to Beacon[2], which is a similar editor for
> GuideXML (Gentoo's documentation format). It uses an XSLT engine to
> transform XML to HTML and vice versa. I contacted the developer of
> this project and it seems like this project has been in hibernation
> for couple of months or so. But the codebase is quite developed and
> should be easy to work with. The developers were also making it a
> generic plug-able framework for easy integration of other doc types.
>
> Since it is a web-based editor, we can integrate this into the Fedora
> documentation site for easy editing and creation.
>
> It would be very nice if the Docs team could provide some feedback on
> what they feel about  a web-based GUI editor which would eliminate the
> need for knowing the Docbook XML format. If I am given a go ahead, I
> would like to put this up as a Feature.
>
> Regards,
> Satya Komaragiri
>
>
> [1]  Existing XSL for Docbook:
> http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookXslStylesheets
> [2]  Beacon: http://beacon.kix.in/
>
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