<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >jw</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="DocBook Utils" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Introduction" HREF="introduction.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="jw" HREF="jw.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="CHAPTER" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >DocBook Utils</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="introduction.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="jw.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="CHAPTER" ><H1 ><A NAME="INTRO-JW" ></A >Chapter 2. jw</H1 ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN75" >2.1. Command reference</A ></H1 ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT ><A HREF="jw.html" >jw</A > -- (Jade Wrapper) converts SGML files to other formats</DT ></DL ></DIV ><P ><SPAN CLASS="CITEREFENTRY" ><SPAN CLASS="REFENTRYTITLE" >jw</SPAN >(1)</SPAN > converts DocBook or other SGML-based formats into "classical" file formats.</P ><P >The modular architecture used by <SPAN CLASS="APPLICATION" >jw</SPAN > allows to write plug-in programs (we call them <I CLASS="FIRSTTERM" >backends</I > and <I CLASS="FIRSTTERM" >frontends</I >). The backends are specific to output formats while the frontends are specific to input formats. We would like to encourage you to write such programs and to submit them to the docbook-utils project.</P ><P >While most backends are based on Jame's Clark Jade, or its OpenJade alternative, some of the backends make use of the programs from the <I CLASS="FIRSTTERM" >docbook2X</I > project. We call these <I CLASS="FIRSTTERM" >helper</I > programs.</P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="introduction.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="jw.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Introduction</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >jw</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >