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Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook to plain text

From: Michael Smith <smith at xml-doc dot org>
To: Vanessa Turney <Vanessa dot Turney at cern dot ch>
Cc: Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek dot cz>, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:05:52 +0900
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook to plain text
References: <5A4D6AC1AB71C34DBC15CC8FCC8E820C084E30@cernxchg20.cern.ch> <4152B7B6.3060004@kosek.cz>

If you have tables in your document, you might want to instead try
either the "links" or "w3m" commands. Those are both capable of
rendering HTML tables in plain-text form. I'm not sure that lynx can.

  --Mike

Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz> writes:

> Vanessa Turney wrote:
> 
> >Hi, I need to convert my xml docbook file to a .txt file, does anyone know 
> >of an  already existing way to do this ? 
> 
> Convert DocBook into HTML using XSL stylesheets. Then use lynx with 
> --dump option to get plain text rendering of HTML page.
> 
> 	
> 			Jirka
>

References:
- [docbook-apps] Docbook to plain text
  - From: Vanessa Turney
- Re: [docbook-apps] Docbook to plain text
  - From: Jirka Kosek

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