NAME

html2dbk - convert XHTML to DocBook.

VERSION

This describes version 0.03 of html2dbk.

SYNOPSIS

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

html2dbk [ --html ] [ --stylesheet filename ] 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"

By default, the input file is expected to be correct XML (there are other programs such as html tidy (http://tidy.sourceforge.net/) which can correct files for you; this does not do that). If you give the --html option then this will attempt to parse the file as HTML.

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 <title> tag is used for the chapter 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.

--html

Treat the input as HTML rather than XML. This may be necessary even with XHTML if the file contains entities such as &nbsp; which are not recognised XML-only entities.

--manpage

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

--stylesheet filename

A replacement XSLT stylesheet to use instead of the built-in default.

--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.