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                      3: .\" Copyright (c) 2014 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
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1.4       kristaps   17: .Dd $Mdocdate: April 30 2014 $
1.1       kristaps   18: .Dt DOCBOOK2MDOC 1
                     19: .Os
                     20: .Sh NAME
                     21: .Nm docbook2mdoc
                     22: .Nd Convert DocBook refentry to mdoc
                     23: .Sh SYNOPSIS
1.2       kristaps   24: .Nm docbook2mdoc
1.1       kristaps   25: .Op Ar file
                     26: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     27: The
                     28: .Nm
                     29: utility reads
                     30: .Ar file
                     31: and
                     32: generates
                     33: .Xr mdoc 7
1.6     ! kristaps   34: and
        !            35: .Xr eqn 7
1.1       kristaps   36: from the
                     37: .Aq refentry
1.2       kristaps   38: section of DocBook source, ignoring other sections.
1.1       kristaps   39: If unspecified or
                     40: .Ar \&- ,
                     41: .Ar file
                     42: is taken to be standard input.
1.4       kristaps   43: The arguments are as follows:
                     44: .Bl -tag -width Ds
                     45: .It Fl W
                     46: Output non-fatal warning messages.
                     47: .El
1.2       kristaps   48: .Pp
                     49: .Nm
                     50: supports only well-formed XML DocBook V4.x until V5.1.
1.5       kristaps   51: Some earlier DocBook constructs are accepted as well.
1.2       kristaps   52: SGML DocBook documents may be parsed unless they contain SGML-specific
                     53: constructs, such as empty end tags
                     54: .Li </> .
1.6     ! kristaps   55: The only non-DocBook construct recognised are
        !            56: .Aq xi:include \(sl
        !            57: .Pq which is discarded
        !            58: and
        !            59: .Aq mml:* ,
        !            60: which is accepted and converted to
        !            61: .Xr eqn 7 .
1.1       kristaps   62: .Sh EXIT STATUS
                     63: .Ex -std
                     64: .Sh EXAMPLES
                     65: To pipe a DocBook document
                     66: .Pa foo.xml
                     67: through
                     68: .Xr mandoc 1
                     69: and a pager:
                     70: .Pp
                     71: .Dl % docbook2mdoc foo.xml | mandoc | more
                     72: .Sh SEE ALSO
                     73: .Xr mandoc 1 ,
                     74: .Xr mdoc 7
                     75: .Sh AUTHORS
                     76: .Nm
                     77: was written by
                     78: .Ar Kristaps Dzonsons ,
                     79: .Mt kristaps@bsd.lv .
                     80: .Sh CAVEATS
                     81: The
                     82: .Nm
                     83: utility is experimental.
1.2       kristaps   84: As such, only a modest subset of the
1.1       kristaps   85: .Aq refentry
                     86: domain is accepted.
1.2       kristaps   87: .Pp
                     88: The output
                     89: .Xr mdoc 7
                     90: could be much nicer: trailing spaces, superfluous space removal,
                     91: new-line new-sentence, and other niceties are not used.

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