NAME

html2dbk - convert XHTML to DocBook.

VERSION

This describes version 0.02 of html2dbk.

SYNOPSIS

html2dbk --help | --manpage | --version

html2dbk file ...

DESCRIPTION

This script (and module) converts an XHTML file into DocBook, using both XSLT and heuristics (as XSLT alone can't do everything).

This script will convert "filename.html" into "filename.xml"

This expects the input file to be correct XHTML -- there are other programs (such as html tidy) http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ which can correct files for you, this does not do that. (Note that if you use HTML Tidy, don't forget to set 'enclose-block-text' or any unenclosed text will dissappear.)

Note also this is very simple; it doesn't deal with things like <div> or <span> which it has no way of guessing the meaning of. This does not merge multiple XHTML files into a single document, so this converts each XHTML file into a <chapter>, with each header being a section (sect1 to sect5). The first header is used for both the chapter title and the first section title.

There will likely to be validity errors, depending on how good the original HTML was. There may be broken links, <xref> elements that should be <link>s, and overuse of <emphasis> and <emphasis role="bold">.

OPTIONS

--help

Print help message and exit.

--manpage

Print the full help documentation (manual page) and exit.

--verbose

Print informational messages.

--version

Print version information and exit.

REQUIRES

    Getopt::Long
    Pod::Usage
    Getopt::ArgvFile
    HTML::ToDocBook
        Cwd
        File::Basename
        File::Spec
        XML::LibXML
        XML::LibXSLT
        HTML::SimpleParse

SEE ALSO

perl(1) Getopt::Long Getopt::ArgvFile Pod::Usage

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to the author.

AUTHOR

    Kathryn Andersen (RUBYKAT)
    perlkat AT katspace dot com
    http://www.katspace.org/tools

COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (c) 2006 by Kathryn Andersen

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.