ROADMAP.md

Roadmap for bookbuilder

bookbuilder is an application that encapsulates the machinery contained in XmlValidator and the associated spec*.xml files. It is meant as a one-stop tool for the validation of cnxmlplus files and the conversion from there to various output formats, including LaTeX, html for web, html for mobile and epub 3.

End-goals for users

Goal	Status
Validate book repo and give output	Done
LaTeX output	Done
Minimal PDF manual layout	Not started
HTML web output	In Progress
XHTML for Epub 3.0	In Progress
HTML for mobile	In Progress
Efficiency	In progress
Documentation	In progress

End-goals from code perspective

Goal	Status
Code documentation	Minimal tutorial
Tests	Not started
Maintainability	Code is PEP8 compliant but overall documentation must be written to support future maintenance

Next goals

User goals

• HTML output
• Epub output. Next Step: Add automatic Epub building via epubmaker API.

Code goals

• Automated tests
  • This will require some refactoring to get classes and methods untangled