Rainer Heilke wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > >Rainer Heilke wrote: > >>I agree with the original contributor that XML is not a suitable path. > > > >Erm... "XML" would only be the "encoding" (like original HTML used > >"SGML" until it got messed-up by suers relying on "relaxed-syntax" > >parsers). The idea was to use DocBook which isn't more difficult to > >learn than HTML or the MediaWiki syntax and in many cases it's much more > >"effective" (except that you can't abuse tables for layout anymore > >etc.). > > > OK, correction accepted. However, DocBook still introduces either new > tools or a learning curve to learn the new markup language. Let's not > lose sight of what this FAQ is nor it's intended audience. I strongly > doubt it will force a need for much more than text or simple tables. I > may end up being proved wrong somewhere down the line, but I'm doubtful.
Right... but somehow I wish (e.g. general wish... I could even extend this to the rant that the whole "DocBook in Solaris"-thing feels like another "MAJC" (e.g. great concept/product, bad marketing, noone used it and in the result it was a failure) - lots of money was invested but 90% inside and outside Sun/OpenSolaris.org uses the old stuff (for example... why are the manual pages still converted from SolBook to troff to plain text ? Grumpf... ;-( )) DocBook would be used more often for documentation within Solaris and OpenSolaris.org. > >What about running a background script every hour if the Wiki was > >updated ? > > > Whether every hour, or with each update, or whatever, it still requires > scripting, server resources, etc. I'm not going to make assumptions > about the server or it's load, the probable need to install new > software, the admins' workload, etc. etc. Right (and the Tonic team is already understaffed and giving a server ssh login away to other people may be tricky, too) ... ;-/ ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
