On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Gabor Hojtsy wrote:

> As far as I see, we can only push the categorized reference sections
> (phpdoc/RFC/manual.xml.in) forward, if we do handle the matter in
> livedocs. Since there are no people who would like to volunteer to
> implement the enhanced TOC stuff in DSSSL (online and downloadable
> versions) and XSLT (extended CHM) I know of, we should keep the current
> manual.xml.in file for these versions, and move the RFC/manual.xml.in
> file to something like phpdoc/php-manual.xml.in (or some other shiny
> name, which is future compatible :) This new file would be used by
> livedocs, and the old file would be used by the DSSSL and XSLT builds.
> Both files would need to be updated, when new extension docs, etc. are
> added (until DSSSL and XSLT rendering stuff gets completely abandoned).

I'd rather rename the "old" one to manual.xml.old.in and fix the
buildscripts and use the new one as "manual.xml.in".

> If this is fine, then the tagging should be decided on. Seems like we
> need to modify docbook anyway we choose, since there is no option we can
> choose to not modify docbook and introduce some section levels there.
> Hartmut's proposal does not fit the multilevel sections proposed in the
> RFC, this is why I suggested using <section> tags. This might however
> have some meaning in livedocs, so since we need to modify docbook
> anyway, we can identically choose to introduce a new tag, like
> <refgroup> or something like this.

The idea of livedocs was that it also works for any other DocBook XML
source, so that should not be changed (I use it for such things).

regards,
Derick

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Derick Rethans
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