Re: Simple documents and DocBook output

[Karl Berry]

    the makeinfo command generated a DocBook file with my text in the
    <abstract> I figured that there was some recommended way to produce
    a simple document with only one root section.

Nah, docbook support just isn't especially well developed or thought
out.  We will rely on you to improve it :).

    I'm talking about a system that would use a single Texinfo,
    AsciiDoc, or DocBook document and use it to make a web page. You
    would have a collection of these documents, and they would be
    converted into HTML to make your site.

Ah, thanks.  That makes more sense.

The impedance mismatch that comes to mind is the cross-file links.
That's obviously common and simple in web sites.  You wouldn't want to
use five-argument @xrefs to do it in Texinfo.  I'm not sure what the
answer is.

Here is a realistic minimal file (untested) for your scenario:

\input texinfo
@setfilename somefile.info
@setitle Some File

@copying
Copyright blah blah
@end copying

@node Top
@top My Little Document

My little document does the job.

@bye