New DocBook support (0002)

[Thibaut Cuvelier]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 12:56, Pavel Sanda <sanda at lyx.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 12:44:34PM +0200, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote:
> > > This is now in.
> > > I see in https://www.lyx.org/AdditionalSoftware that we used to
> require
> > > SGML tools for Docbook. This is no more the case and we can delete it,
> > > correct?
> >
> > Absolutely, there is no requirement for this implementation to work. You
> > will need an XSLT processor and DocBook sheets to make something out of
> the
> > DocBook document, but that's after LyX (just like you need a Web browser
> > for the HTML output).
>
> So as a novice user who installs LyX on his machine, who wants to see the
> output
> with new docbook machinery, what programs/packages hee needs to install to
> have some
> meaningful options to see the result when he chooses
> Document->View->Docbook?
> Or is the plan to have only File->Export->Docbook option?
>

My original plan was just to allow export. If you want to view the document
as-is (i.e. without transforming it further, as the XSLT sheets would do,
for instance by generating HTML or PDF files), you would have to resort to
XML editors with WYSIWYM support (XMLmind, Oxygen, XMetaL, all of which are
commercial -- I don't know any other that's still actively developed),
that's not software you'd expect to find broadly.
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