Converting to Texinfo

Abstract

Details on Texinfo conversion

docbook2X converts DocBook to Texinfo in two steps:

  1. The DocBook source is converted by a stylesheet into an intermediate XML format, Texi-XML.

    Texi-XML is simpler than DocBook and closer to the Texinfo format; it is intended to make the stylesheets' job easier.

    The stylesheet for this purpose has the public ID:

    -//Steve Cheng//DOCUMENT DocBook Texinfo Stylesheet//EN
    

    Alternatively, you can refer to the stylesheet with this URI:

    http://docbook2x.sf.net/latest/xslt/texi/docbook.xsl
    

    Run this stylesheet with db2x_xsltproc.

  2. Texi-XML is converted to the actual Texinfo files by db2x_texixml.

The docbook2texi command does both steps automatically, but if any problems occur, you can see the errors more clearly if you do each step separately:

$ db2x_xsltproc -s texi mydoc.xml -o mydoc.txml
$ db2x_texixml mydoc.txml