On Tuesday 26 February 2008, Patton, Eric wrote: > 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?
This was the kind of thing I had in mind when originally mentioning CSS block-level classes. I suppose that I should read about how PDFdocs are created by the Makefile-- but it would be nice to have the man pages in the most maleable format possible. > > 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. DocBook, custom XML, or even some kind of LaTeX hybrid (like the R manual system) might be useful. Moving thing between HTML and Man page format would be another story-- but probably doable with some kind of simple parser/converter. Dylan > ~ Eric. > > > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Resource Laboratory http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
