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[Shane Fagan <shanepatrickfagan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey,

> Dang it, I wrote both of the Quickly tutorials in HTML, and then changed
> them to docbook because someone told me I was "supposed to".

Well I changed them :P Isnt the reason why we switched because its
easier to use gettext with docbook than html. 

> 
> I suppose we could author in HTML, and then use a transform to create
> DocBook out of that if we are strict with our HTML.

There is no way to actually transform from html to docbook at least not
in the repo anyway. I looked pretty hard to find ways to do it but in
the end I just swapped out the tags by hand. I could write up a script
to do it if you want.

--fagan