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Originally Posted by tompe
Can you not do that to a certain degree using HTML as base format?
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This is actually one of the whole design concepts of DocBook. It is an XML based storage format for books/text/documents. The XML tags are used to denote sections/chapters/footnotes/etc/etc... Then transforms are used to create a final layout.
This is how many software applications do their help. With a single source you can generate Html help, WinHelp, Word Docs, etc. Each format can even have different content included/excluded as needed.
There are tools that support the DocBook XML format that you use to edit your document. If you find a problem with one of the output files you either fix the source content or annotation or you fix the transformation/layout file.
See
http://www.docbook.org/ for more info if you are interested.
Of course, publishers don't work this way because they didn't start working this way.
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