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Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de> writes:
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> I think we would find hundreds of xslt stylesheets on the web to
> transform Docbook to virtually any format.

Yes, this is the power and beauty of DocBook.

> Will we loose the features of htmlize.el?
> I'm not familiar with the Docbook DTD - I know it includes lots of
> elements. How about time/date types, Programming types (string,
> variable, class, function....)?

I have not tried it, but it seems that syntax highlighting of source
code listing can be done.  See this page:

  http://www.sagehill.net/docbookxsl/SyntaxHighlighting.html

> Wouldn't it be easier to transform the XHTML to docbook through xslt?
> The types are not lost, since all types that emacs is aware of, are
> exported as <span class="type">...</span>.

It should be DocBook -> XHTML if we are talking about general
publishing.  DocBook has enough features, tags, and more importantly,
much more available tools.

Baoqiu