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Document conversions
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This document aims to document a list of semantic markup elements, which can
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not be converted into one or another markup language, so you have to expect
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loss in the semantic document information during conversions.
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Source RST
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Conversion loss, when the source is a RST document.
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Docbook
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- Strong emphasis
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There is no strong emphasis markup in Docbook, so we use <emphasis
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role="strong"/> for this, while the role may be lost during further
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conversions.
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- Table colspan
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Table colspan are available in Docbook, but the markup is rather unintuitive
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and hard to read. These information may be lost during further conversions.
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- Footnote enumeration
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In docbook footnote do not have any user assigned enumeration, while in RST
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there may be multiple footnotes with the same (labeled) user assigned
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number. This information is completely lost during conversion.
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- Substitutions
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The substitution references are not preserved, but just substituted during
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the conversion process. The information about the parts which were
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substituted is completely lost.
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- Line blocks / literal blocks
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Line blocks and literal blocks are converted to <literalblock> elements,
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only differing by the given class attribute.
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- Bullet list tokens
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The information which kind of bullet list token has been used is completely
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omitted during the conversion.
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XHTML
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- Headers
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XHtml only allows a specification of header levels from 1 to 6. All headers
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with a depth of ≥ 6 contain a class attribute specifying their real depth.
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- Blockquote annotations
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There is no XHtml element for blockquote annotations, so that they are
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transformed to <div class="annotation"/> elements containing <cite>
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elements, which may be considered as a citation source. This information may
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be lost during further processing. The cite attribute of blockquotes only
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accept URIs.
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- Bullet list & ordered list types
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XHtml strict does not allow to specify the type of bullet lists or ordered
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lists, so that this information is lost during conversion.
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- Footnotes
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There is no dedicated XHtml element for footnotes, so that footnotes are
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referenced inside the text by internal links with the class "footnote", and
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the actual footnotes are added below the document in lists of the class
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footnote with the proper reference targets.
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- Line blocks
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Line blocks are transformed into paragraphs, where the lines are seperated
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by <br /> elements. This causes the right formatting, but may lose semantic
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information.
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