On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 01:39:56PM +0000, Pier Fumagalli wrote: > "Jeff Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So I agree with Diana about moving all docs to the Wiki. It seems the > > best long-term solution, avoiding all the problems that a dual wiki/xdoc > > system would cause. > > I disagree on that. IMO the "Wiki" syntax doesn't have the capability to > contextualize the information contained in the document (how can we tell > that a "screenshot" is different from a "configuration file snippet?" - in > "Wiki" it's all a big <PRE>...</PRE> whatever).
In doc-v11 we'd have to abuse <code> to do that. The XML format is so limited that this kind of abuse becomes necessary. We could add <screenshot> and <configuration> tags, but where does the tag-adding process end? Its sad, but right now, CSS-happy XHTML is often more semantically rich than doc-v11 XML documentation. We could use: <div style="configuration"> </div> Which is a DTD-friendly equivalent of <configuration>. So there's a half-formed plan over in Forrest-land to migrate to XHTML 2 as an intermediate format, and make it one of the frontend formats too: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=forrest-dev&m=104351979527689&w=2 --Jeff > Otherwise, what's the point of using XML anyway. I could use FrontPage and > web folders and get done with it... > > Pier > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
