Hi, 2008/2/26, Patton, Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Glynn mentioned DocBook as a possible future doc format...what about XML? Are > there > any advantages to ever using that format, or is it pretty much the same as > using HTML?
Docbook is a semantic markup language -- an XML language [1]. One of examples can be Mplayer docs system [2], it could be good inspiration for Docbook-based GRASS manual pages, multi-language based. > If we ever wanted to move to XML, or at least make it easier to migrate to > it, all html > tags would have to be lowercased, as I believe XML expects it. I've written > a small sed > script to do this already, but I didn't want to modify all 300+ docs and do > a massive > svn commit if there's no point. Moving to Docbook would be advantage, if we do not break K.I.S.S. principle. Another issue for GRASS7. Martin [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docbook [2] http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk/DOCS/ -- Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://gama.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa * _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
