Am 14.04.98 schrieb apharris # burrito.onshore.com ... Moin Adam!
APH> Document: doc-base What for is this? APH> Title: Debian doc-base Manual This is like my <linkname>? APH> Author: Christian Schwarz Do we need that? APH> Abstract: This manual describes what doc-base is and how it can be used APH> to manage online manuals on Debian systems. Ok, is should HTML be allowed? APH> Section: Apps/Programming Ok. APH> Format: debiandoc-sgml APH> Files: /usr/doc/doc-base/doc-base.sgml.gz APH> APH> Format: text APH> Files: /usr/doc/doc-base/doc-base.text.gz I don#t understand that. Can every File can have its own Abstract for example? How can you recognize the beginning of the definition of a new document (like my <item></item>)? APH> Format: HTML APH> Index: /usr/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/index.html APH> Files: /usr/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/*.html What#s that? I don#t see any need for that. "File: " should be the root document (index.html in this example). That#s difficult to parse in C. APH> Blech. Disagree. Arguably, flat text files are our standard format; No, see Policy. APH> a close runner up being debiandoc-sgml. Anyhow, if you want to Only very few packages use debiandoc. APH> accomodate lazy pgk maintainers, it would be bettter to try to APH> autoguess the format based on either the file magic (i.e., 'file') or APH> the suffix. The "file" program is no option for a C program. But you could use the .html, .ps at the end. But this would be difficult, if the file is compressed or it#s a SGML file (there#re several DTDs). cu, Marco -- Uni: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fido: 2:240/5202.15 Mailbox: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.tu-harburg.de/~semb2204/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

