By Boertjie on

I might be asking a really stupid question but I am a newbie and I do not seem to find any other posts of users with the same problem. If I export a section of the handbooks as Docbook XML file and open it in OpenOffice 2.0 It shows me all document mark-up as well? What could I be doing wrong?

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puregin commented

Hi,

If you are using the 4.6 version of book.module, it is exporting a very limited version of DocBook - basically all node content is exported as 'literal layout' (similar to HTML's <pre> tag)

The CVS Head version of Drupal, which will hopefully emerge soon as Drupal 4.7, has a new version of book module and a supporting module which will export HTML content as true DocBook. Depending on the nature of your markup, you may need to fuss with this a little before it becomes useable, but it's much better than the previous version.

Also, there is work happening on supporting DocBook and other formats as more-or-less native input formats.

Regards, Djun

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