New DocBook support (0002)

[Thibaut Cuvelier]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 13:38, Pavel Sanda <sanda at lyx.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 01:14:44PM +0200, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> I see, it can be export only if you think that's what is in general
> expected.
>

For now, I suppose it's the best thing to do. We may propose View options
and recognise if specific software is installed (LibreOffice can read
DocBook 4, the result is not always pretty…), but I'm not really sure if it
will be useful.
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