Allegedly, on Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:50:02AM +0900, Osamu Aoki stated: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 11:44:39AM +0000, W. Borgert wrote: > > Hi, > > > > http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp says "We use DebianDoc SGML for our > > documents", and the policy says the same. However, more and more > > documents in and for Debian are in fact written using DocBook/XML. > > My plea is to officially allow DocBook/XML. > > I think we discussed this here. Answer is yes if someone bothered to > make web page generation script (Makefile) for XML. Also that person > has to tell system admin which package needs to be installed. Then we > have no issue including XML doc. I am waiting for this to happen. > > > (My personal reasons for preferring DocBook/XML: > > - more mainstream, used by many large projects > Yes. > > > - easy to generate *roff manual pages > > - good-looking PDFs using db2latex-xsl > Hmmmm... > > > - I can use Emacs nxml-mode > > - WYSIWYG addicts can use the non-free editor XXE > > - supports images, tables, etc. > > Yes, yes, ... This is big plus. [snip] > > > > What do you think? > > Go for it as long as this XML transition is well planned soft > transition. We do not need to swich all the documentation at once. I > really want to have option to choose SGML and XML. > > Osamu
A related question about generating XML/DocBook: is anyone here sufficiently familiar with both DocBook and reStructuredText to judge whether the latter can actually generate well-formed output of the former? If yes, this might make it much simpler for some people to produce DocBook, without having to edit XML directly. Thanks, Raymond -- "Be Nice, or Leave - By Order of the Management" (Sign above door, Black Sheep Inn, Wakefield) GPG Fingerprint: 2E4D 8605 DD48 E80F F893 1C02 B65D 86D9 3B3C 0E03 Encrypted E-mail Preferred Bush-whacked 2004! Try to relax and enjoy the Chaos :-)
