(Responding just to the help XML bit here:)

Gervase Markham wrote:
> Be very cautious here. I'm sure several people have BTDT, and it would 
> be stupid to reinvent the wheel. Scour the web before we invent yet 
> another language.
> 

I don't know if you could call what I've been doing *scouring*, but I 
don't feel like I've found a good schema for online help, and this 
really is something that Mozilla (and the world!) could use. DocBook 
isn't designed for this sort of thing, though I realize it can be 
perverted into nearly any shape or application.

A schema/DTD for online help would be a different, second wheel on the 
mozilla information vehicle, and might really help us get around better. 
I don't know...I have been looking into this recently and hope that we 
can continue talking about the shape and use of such a schema in the 
help system. XML may afford us the opportunity to integrate the 
documentation better into the UE, among other things.

.io


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