Andy Little wrote:
> "Dean Michael Berris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On 7/12/06, David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Another reason we should have our own DOM.  Figuring out how to do all
>>> that XML junk might not be worth the trouble.
>>>
>> Sounds like a good idea to me -- perhaps one schema for documentation
>> generated with Boost.Book and then just stylesheets for HTML
>> generation.
>>
>> Is there a reason why Boost is using DocBook still?
> 
> One good point about DocBook is that it produces pdf output for free.

I believe pdf is the primary reason we went that direction. That's important 
to me, at least.  See examples:

http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/libraries/date_time/date_time_1_33.pdf
http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/libraries/date_time/proposal_v75/n1900.pdf

Not to mention that there are books written how to use it, xml editors that 
support is, it's used by some publishers, etc.

Jeff


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