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0006273ScribusGeneralpublic2025-06-23 19:40
Reporterbonaire Assigned Tocbradney  
PrioritynormalSeverityfeatureReproducibilityN/A
Status closedResolutionwon't fix 
Summary0006273: Support for any XML dialect (like Dita or DocBook) and there Schema or DTD
DescriptionIt would be great, if Scribus would support XML-based structured authoring with template-based publishing.
This means that I (as technical communicator) can asign a paragraph style (for xml block elements) or a charackter style (xml inline elements) to xml elements having regard to an actually loaded dtd or schema.
An example:
I write the text 'This is the Introduction'.
Then I choose a adequate XML element from a toolbar or something and my text 'this is the Introduction' becomes a asigned style. But the toolbar is only allowed to show that elements that are allowed in the actual context of the dtd or schema.
This would be so cool, because at this point, Scribus would become better than Adobe's structured FrameMaker and it's ugly usability in examination to the needs of technical communicators.
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ale

2025-06-23 17:48

manager   ~0052814

in my eyes, this ticket does not contain information that can help getting to an implementation in scribus of xml based documents.

the idea is good, but we're still so far away from having this kind of feature that i'd prefer to close this ticket and hope that one day:

- we will get to the point where this might get possible to implement (as an example: relative placement of images...)
- we will get a more detailed proposal with ideas on how to implement it and examples of source documents + target output.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2007-09-25 08:20 bonaire New Issue
2008-02-05 21:21 christoph_s Status new => acknowledged
2025-06-23 17:48 ale Note Added: 0052814
2025-06-23 17:48 ale Tag Attached: #tobeclosed
2025-06-23 19:40 cbradney Assigned To => cbradney
2025-06-23 19:40 cbradney Status acknowledged => closed
2025-06-23 19:40 cbradney Resolution open => won't fix